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From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>,
	Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Superblock V 1.2
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:16:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101115161646.GA38828@cons.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101115121158.20e2e53e@notabene.brown>

Neil Brown wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:11:58PM +1100: 
> 
> When mdadm does auto-assemble an array that doesn't obviously belong to this
> host, it tries to be careful and assembles it 'read-auto', which means that
> it is completely read-only until you try to write to the array.  So no
> recovery or resync happens.
> Once you write to the array, md assumes that you are happy to have the array
> assembled on this device, and allows any resync etc to start.

Speaking of which, are there any plans to do a true readonly mode?

I missed that quite a few times.

Martin
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-07 19:15 Superblock V 1.2 Martin Cracauer
2010-11-07 21:03 ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-11-07 21:08   ` Martin Cracauer
2010-11-07 21:39     ` John Robinson
2010-11-09 16:35       ` Martin Cracauer
2010-11-09 17:08         ` John Robinson
2010-11-15  1:11           ` Neil Brown
2010-11-15 16:16             ` Martin Cracauer [this message]
2010-11-15 19:47               ` Neil Brown
2010-11-15 19:52                 ` Martin Cracauer
2010-11-15 20:11                   ` Neil Brown

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