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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13 v3] Introduce device state 'failed', Hot spare and Auto replace
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 03:02:41 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$18bc7$19b02793$bd43daae$43f1ae98@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160404221513.7fd31f8f@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de

Kai Krakow posted on Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:15:13 +0200 as excerpted:

> Your argument would be less important if it did copy-back, tho... ;-)

FWIW, I completely misunderstood your description of copy-back in my 
original reply, and didn't realize what you meant (and thus my mistaken 
understanding) until I read some of the other replies today.

What I /thought/ you meant was some totally nonsense/WTF idea of keeping 
the newly substituted hot-spare in place, and taking the newly vacated 
"defective" device and putting it back in the the hot-spare list.

That rightly seemed stupid to me (it's a device just replaced as 
defective, now you're putting it back as a hot-spare? WTF?), but that's 
how I read what you were asking for and saying that other solutions did, 
so...

Of course today when I read the other replies and realized what you were 
/actually/ describing, returning the hot-spare to hot-spare status after 
physically replacing the actually failed drive with a new one and 
logically replacing the hot-spare with it in the filesystem, thereby 
making the hot-spare a spare once again, my reaction was "DUH!! NOW it 
makes sense!"  But I was just going to let it go and go hide my original 
misunderstanding in a hole somewhere.

But now you replied to my reply, so I figured I would reply back, 
explaining what on earth I was thinking when I wrote it, and why it must 
have seemed rather out of left field and didn't make much sense -- 
because what I was thinking you were suggesting /didn't/ make sense, but 
of course that's because I totally misunderstood what you were suggesting.

So now my very-much-former misunderstanding is out of the hole and posted 
for everyone to see and have a good laugh at, and I'm much the wiser on 
what copy-back actually entails. =:^)

Tho it seems I was correct in the one aspect, currently ENotImplemented, 
even if my idea of what you were asking to be implemented was totally and 
completely off-the-wall wrong.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-05  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-02  1:30 [PATCH 00/13 v3] Introduce device state 'failed', Hot spare and Auto replace Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 01/13] btrfs: Introduce a new function to check if all chunks a OK for degraded mount Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 02/13] btrfs: Do per-chunk check for mount time check Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 03/13] btrfs: Do per-chunk degraded check for remount Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 04/13] btrfs: Allow barrier_all_devices to do per-chunk device check Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 05/13] btrfs: Cleanup num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 06/13] btrfs: introduce BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SPARE_DEV Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 07/13] btrfs: add check not to mount a spare device Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 08/13] btrfs: support btrfs dev scan for " Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 09/13] btrfs: provide framework to get and put a " Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 10/13] btrfs: introduce helper functions to perform hot replace Anand Jain
2016-04-02  5:40   ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-07 20:00   ` Yauhen Kharuzhy
2016-04-08  3:58     ` Anand Jain
2016-04-08 22:05   ` Yauhen Kharuzhy
2016-04-12 14:16     ` Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 11/13] btrfs: introduce device dynamic state transition to offline or failed Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 12/13] btrfs: check device for critical errors and mark failed Anand Jain
2016-04-02  1:30 ` [PATCH 13/13] btrfs: check for failed device and hot replace Anand Jain
2016-04-04  0:00 ` [PATCH 00/13 v3] Introduce device state 'failed', Hot spare and Auto replace Kai Krakow
2016-04-04  4:45   ` Duncan
2016-04-04  6:09     ` Duncan
2016-04-04 20:15     ` Kai Krakow
2016-04-05  3:02       ` Duncan [this message]
2016-04-04  6:19   ` Anand Jain
2016-04-04 20:07     ` Kai Krakow

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