linux/drivers/md
NeilBrown e691063a61 md: support 'external' metadata for md arrays
- Add a state flag 'external' to indicate that the metadata is managed
  externally (by user-space) so important changes need to be
  left of user-space to handle.
  Alternates are non-persistant ('none') where there is no stable metadata -
  after the  array is stopped there is no record of it's status - and
  internal which can be version 0.90 or version 1.x
  These are selected by writing to the 'metadata' attribute.

- move the updating of superblocks (sync_sbs) to after we have checked if
  there are any superblocks or not.

- New array state 'write_pending'.  This means that the metadata records
  the array as 'clean', but a write has been requested, so the metadata has
  to be updated to record a 'dirty' array before the write can continue.
  This change is reported to md by writing 'active' to the array_state
  attribute.

- tidy up marking of sb_dirty:
   - don't set sb_dirty when resync finishes as md_check_recovery
     calls md_update_sb when the sync thread finishes anyway.
   - Don't set sb_dirty in multipath_run as the array might not be dirty.
   - don't mark superblock dirty when switching to 'clean' if there
     is no internal superblock (if external, userspace can choose to
     update the superblock whenever it chooses to).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
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raid6test md: raid6: clean up the style of raid6test/test.c 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: misc files 2006-01-01 22:21:50 +01:00
bitmap.c md: Update md bitmap during resync. 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
dm-bio-list.h dm: bio_list macro renaming 2007-10-20 02:01:11 +01:00
dm-bio-record.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-crypt.c dm crypt: use bio_add_page 2007-12-20 17:32:13 +00:00
dm-delay.c dm: bio_list macro renaming 2007-10-20 02:01:11 +01:00
dm-emc.c dm mpath: emc fix an error message 2007-10-20 02:01:12 +01:00
dm-exception-store.c dm: fix memory leak in dm_create_persistent() when starting metadata update thread fails 2007-07-18 08:38:22 -07:00
dm-hw-handler.c dm: use kzalloc 2007-10-20 02:01:07 +01:00
dm-hw-handler.h dm mpath: add retry pg init 2007-10-20 02:01:18 +01:00
dm-io.c Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io 2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
dm-io.h dm io: remove old interface 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-ioctl.c dm: trigger change uevent on rename 2007-12-20 17:32:11 +00:00
dm-linear.c [PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codes 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-log.c dm log: split suspend 2007-10-20 02:01:21 +01:00
dm-log.h dm log: split suspend 2007-10-20 02:01:21 +01:00
dm-mpath-hp-sw.c dm mpath: hp retry if not ready 2007-10-20 02:01:20 +01:00
dm-mpath-rdac.c dm mpath: rdac fix init race 2007-10-20 02:00:57 +01:00
dm-mpath.c dm mpath: send uevents 2007-10-20 02:01:27 +01:00
dm-mpath.h [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-path-selector.c dm: use kzalloc 2007-10-20 02:01:07 +01:00
dm-path-selector.h [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-raid1.c dm raid1: add mirror_set to struct mirror 2007-10-20 02:01:22 +01:00
dm-round-robin.c dm: remove duplicate module name from error msgs 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-snap.c dm: use is_power_of_2 2007-10-20 02:01:06 +01:00
dm-snap.h dm: use kmem_cache macro 2007-07-12 15:01:08 -07:00
dm-stripe.c dm: use is_power_of_2 2007-10-20 02:01:06 +01:00
dm-table.c dm: merge max_hw_sector 2007-12-20 17:32:12 +00:00
dm-target.c dm: use kzalloc 2007-10-20 02:01:07 +01:00
dm-uevent.c dm: uevent generate events 2007-10-20 02:01:26 +01:00
dm-uevent.h dm: uevent generate events 2007-10-20 02:01:26 +01:00
dm-zero.c Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io 2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
dm.c Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices 2008-01-24 20:40:36 -08:00
dm.h dm: trigger change uevent on rename 2007-12-20 17:32:11 +00:00
faulty.c Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io 2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
Kconfig dm mpath: hp requires scsi 2007-12-20 17:32:09 +00:00
kcopyd.c kcopyd use mutex instead of semaphore 2007-10-20 02:01:08 +01:00
kcopyd.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
linear.c Add UNPLUG traces to all appropriate places 2007-11-09 13:41:32 +01:00
Makefile dm: add uevent to core 2007-10-20 02:01:24 +01:00
md.c md: support 'external' metadata for md arrays 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
mktables.c md: raid6: Fix mktable.c 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
multipath.c Add UNPLUG traces to all appropriate places 2007-11-09 13:41:32 +01:00
raid0.c Add UNPLUG traces to all appropriate places 2007-11-09 13:41:32 +01:00
raid1.c md: Update md bitmap during resync. 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
raid5.c md: Update md bitmap during resync. 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
raid6.h [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6algos.c x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid6altivec.uc [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6int.uc Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6mmx.c x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid6recov.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6sse1.c x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid6sse2.c x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid6x86.h x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid10.c md: Update md bitmap during resync. 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
unroll.pl Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00