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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, ed.ciechanowski@intel.com,
	marcin.labun@intel.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Manual update for --continue option
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:09:48 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111003100948.1bd85b1c@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110927120539.4890.87894.stgit@gklab-128-013.igk.intel.com>

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On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:05:39 +0200 Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com> wrote:

> Patch adds to mdadm man the following information:
> 
>  --continue
>    This option is complementary pair to assembly --freeze-reshape option.
>    It is needed when --grow operation is interrupted and it is not restarted
>    automatically due to --freeze-reshape usage during array assembly.
>    Option --continue has to be used together with -G , ( --grow ) command
>    and device that it should be executed on.  All parameters required for
>    reshape continuation will be read from array metadata.  If initial
>    --grow command had required --backup-file= option to be set,
>    continuation option will require to  have  exactly the same backup
>    file pointed to also.
> 
>    Any other parameter passed together with --continue option will be ignored.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
> ---
> 
>  mdadm.8.in |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
> index 3e2f99e..6b0af55 100644
> --- a/mdadm.8.in
> +++ b/mdadm.8.in
> @@ -734,6 +734,33 @@ The file must be stored on a separate device, not on the RAID array
>  being reshaped.
>  
>  .TP
> +.BR \-\-continue
> +This option is complementary pair to assembly
> +.B \-\-freeze-reshape
> +option. It is needed when
> +.B \-\-grow
> +operation is interrupted and it is not restarted automatically due to
> +.B \-\-freeze-reshape
> +usage during array assembly. Option
> +.BR \-\-continue
> +has to be used together with
> +.BR \-G
> +, (
> +.BR \-\-grow
> +) command and device that it should be executed on.
> +All parameters required for reshape continuation will be read from array metadata.
> +If initial
> +.BR \-\-grow
> +command had required
> +.BR \-\-backup\-file=
> +option to be set, continuation option will require to have exactly the same
> +backup file pointed to also.
> +.IP
> +Any other parameter passed together with
> +.BR \-\-continue
> +option will be ignored.
> +
> +.TP
>  .BR \-N ", " \-\-name=
>  Set a
>  .B name


Thanks.
Both man-page updates added (with some minor fixes).

NeilBrown


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      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-02 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 12:04 [PATCH 0/8] Reshape restart after filesystem pivot Adam Kwolek
2011-09-27 12:04 ` [PATCH 1/8] Do not continue reshape during initrd phase Adam Kwolek
2011-10-02 22:19   ` NeilBrown
2011-09-27 12:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] Add continue option to grow command Adam Kwolek
2011-10-02 22:27   ` NeilBrown
2011-09-27 12:04 ` [PATCH 3/8] Do not restart reshape if it is started already Adam Kwolek
2011-10-02 22:41   ` NeilBrown
2011-09-27 12:05 ` [PATCH 4/8] Set correct reshape restart position Adam Kwolek
2011-10-02 22:56   ` NeilBrown
2011-09-27 12:05 ` [PATCH 5/8] Move code to get_data_disks() function Adam Kwolek
2011-10-02 22:58   ` NeilBrown
2011-09-27 12:05 ` [PATCH 6/8] Verify reshape restart position Adam Kwolek
2011-10-02 23:06   ` NeilBrown
2011-09-27 12:05 ` [PATCH 7/8] Manual update for --continue option Adam Kwolek
2011-09-27 12:05 ` [PATCH 8/8] " Adam Kwolek
2011-10-02 23:09   ` NeilBrown [this message]

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