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@ 2004-05-28  6:45 NeilBrown
  2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 7 of 8 - Allow md arrays to be resized if devices are large enough NeilBrown
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From: NeilBrown @ 2004-05-28  6:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-raid

Following are 8 patches for md in 2.6.7-rc1-mm1

The first 6 a ready to go to Linus.
The last two are sufficiently new that maybe they should wait a while,
but I don't have any serious concerns about them and have tested them quite a bit.

1 - tidy up some multipath code
2 - fix a bug which stopped failed drives from being removable
    in some cases.
3 - rationalise use of ->hot_remove_disk method.
4 - double check that size in a multiple of chunksize of raid5/6
    (needed for a subsequent patch)
5 - Fix problem with hot-adding to array with non-persistant superblocks.
6 - Get raid1 to cope sensible with a device failure during rebuild.

and the new functionality.

7 - support resizing of devices in raid1/4/5/6.  If the devices are replaced
    with larger ones, the array can grow while online to use the extra space
8 - support adding and removing active drives for raid1.  i.e change a raid1 
    array that used 2 drives so that it uses 3 drives, or vice-versa.

I will release a new mdadm in a few days that provide "--grow" for using
this functionality.

NeilBrown


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2004-05-28  6:45 [PATCH] md - 0 of 8 - Introduction NeilBrown
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2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 3 of 8 - Allow an md personality to refuse a hot-remove request NeilBrown
2004-05-28 18:35   ` 3ware 7506-8 and Tyan Thunder 2500, S1867, anyone? buggz
2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 6 of 8 - Abort the resync of raid1 there is only one device NeilBrown
2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 5 of 8 - Handle hot-add for arrays with non-persistent superblocks NeilBrown
2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 1 of 8 - Rationalise device selection in md/multipath NeilBrown
2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 2 of 8 - Make sure md_check_recovery will remove a faulty device when ->nr_pending hits 0 NeilBrown
2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 8 of 8 - Support reshaping raid1 arrays - adding or removing drives NeilBrown
2004-05-28  7:31   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-28  8:41     ` Neil Brown
2004-05-28 13:32   ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2004-05-28 22:47     ` Neil Brown
2004-05-28  6:45 ` [PATCH] md - 4 of 8 - Make sure the size of a raid5/6 array is a multiple of the chunk size NeilBrown

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