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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID1 assembled broken array
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:07:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19132.31312.353493.453529@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Matthias Urlichs on Thursday September 17

On Thursday September 17, matthias@urlichs.de wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:44 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > >> 1.0 also protects from this problem.
> > >
> > > So what's the best way to update a 0.9 superblock to 1.0 format?
> > >
> > > mdadm --assemble --metadata=1.0 --update=summaries ... ?
> > 
> > I don't think you can.  You just have to create a new array with the  
> > new superblock.
> > 
> Hmm. Looks like you're right.
> 
> Consider this to be a feature request, then. If 1.0 is more reasonable
> than 0.9, there should be a "safe" upgrade path.

Yes, definitely.  There should be.

Now if only there were more hours in the day.... :-)

NeilBrown

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-25  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 19:22 RAID1 assembled broken array Matthias Urlichs
2009-09-15 19:24 ` Majed B.
2009-09-15 19:33   ` Matthias Urlichs
2009-09-15 19:43     ` Majed B.
2009-09-15 20:04       ` Doug Ledford
2009-09-15 20:00 ` Doug Ledford
2009-09-15 20:27   ` Matthias Urlichs
2009-09-15 21:01   ` NeilBrown
2009-09-16  4:50     ` Matthias Urlichs
2009-09-17 16:44       ` Doug Ledford
2009-09-17 17:09         ` Matthias Urlichs
2009-09-17 17:12           ` Majed B.
2009-09-25  8:07           ` Neil Brown [this message]
2009-09-17  8:25     ` Andre Noll
2009-09-25  8:12       ` Neil Brown
2009-09-25 10:42         ` Chris Webb
2009-09-26  9:58         ` Andre Noll
2009-09-26 13:01           ` John Robinson
2009-09-26 19:21             ` Clinton Lee Taylor
2009-09-28 16:12               ` Andre Noll

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