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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next prev parent 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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