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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, wojciech.neubauer@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Grow_continue() - single array.
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:43:17 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110308174317.489684f1@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110302132426.24771.99191.stgit@gklab-128-013.igk.intel.com>


Hi Adam,
 I've reviewed this set of patches, applied a few of them, and
made some patches of my own that should achieve the result that I think you
were aiming for.  I haven't tested them so there might still be some
issues...

Two important points.

1/ I now require getinfo_super and container_content to present a
 reshape_active array in a form that md can cope with it.  So a
 RAID0 array that is in the middle of a reshape must appear to be
 a RAID4 or RAID5 array.
 I have changed super-intel to do this, but I have probably missed
 some cases - please check that all supported migrations that cannot
 be handled directly are handled by the new code.

 With this in place, I have changed sysfs_set_array to set up all
 the geometry of the array, both old and new.  I think this makes
 a lot of things a lot cleaner.

2/ I've revised how to handle the restart of a container-wide
  migration.
  As there is only one array in such a container that is actually
  migrating, the mdadm which assembles it can be the one that forks
  and managed the whole container.
  This now happens.  The metadata informs metadata that a container-wide
  reshape is needed by setting ->reshape_active to '2'.


I have added a 'freeze' call where I think it should go but I wouldn't be at
all surprised if I got it wrong.

Please review the patch - which are all in my devel-3.2 branch
    http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=log;h=refs/heads/devel-3.2

and let me know what you think.

Thanks,
NeilBrown


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-02 13:28 [PATCH 0/9] Grow_continue() - single array Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 1/9] FIX: Do not configure and start, already started reshape Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 2/9] FIX: Array during reshape cannot be configured Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 3/9] imsm: FIX: Return blocks_per unit for general migration Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 4/9] imsm: FIX: After checkpoint mark array have to be clean Adam Kwolek
2011-03-08  5:07   ` NeilBrown
2011-03-08  8:52     ` Kwolek, Adam
2011-03-08 22:14       ` NeilBrown
2011-03-09  7:31         ` Kwolek, Adam
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 5/9] FIX: Continue reshape in the background Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 6/9] FIX: Verify Backup file name before reshape Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 7/9] FIX: Set 'new' geometry when assembling reshaped array Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 8/9] FIX: Block array monitoring " Adam Kwolek
2011-03-02 13:30 ` [PATCH 9/9] imsm: FIX: Variables declaration cleanup Adam Kwolek
2011-03-08  6:43 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-03-08 11:18   ` [PATCH 0/9] Grow_continue() - single array Kwolek, Adam

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