From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] DDF: brief_examine_subarrays_ddf: print array name
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:47:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130912154743.1e6f0bf9@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5230CAAE.1020804@arcor.de>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:55:26 +0200 Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 09:50 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
>
> > That means that libstorage's way of parsing mdadm -Es output must be
> > changed, but that should be possible. Sending new patches.
>
> Forgot to mention: It seems that IMSM BIOS forces users to set an array
> name. LSI BIOS does not, the name is optional there. It is possible to
> have several subarrays, each without name.
>
>
Yes. Names are optional. Each array needs a UUID though.
If no name is found in the metadata or in mdadm.conf you end up with "md127"
or similar I think.
NeilBrown
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 21:26 [PATCH 1/2] DDF: brief_examine_subarrays_ddf: print array name mwilck
2013-09-06 21:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] DDF: new algorithm for subarray UUID mwilck
2013-09-07 19:23 ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-09 1:20 ` NeilBrown
2013-09-09 18:37 ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-09 23:51 ` NeilBrown
2013-09-09 1:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] DDF: brief_examine_subarrays_ddf: print array name NeilBrown
2013-09-09 18:31 ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-09 18:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] DDF: handle fake RAIDs with changing subarray UUIDs mwilck
2013-09-09 23:48 ` NeilBrown
2013-09-10 0:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] DDF: brief_examine_subarrays_ddf: print array name NeilBrown
2013-09-11 19:50 ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-11 19:55 ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-12 5:47 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2013-09-11 19:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] DDF: factor out array name generation mwilck
2013-09-11 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] DDF: brief_examine_subarrays_ddf: print array name mwilck
2013-09-12 5:44 ` NeilBrown
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