1. 27 Jun, 2008 1 commit
    • Neil Brown's avatar
      Ensure interrupted recovery completed properly (v1 metadata plus bitmap) · 8c2e870a
      Neil Brown authored
      If, while assembling an array, we find a device which is not fully
      in-sync with the array, it is important to set the "fullsync" flags.
      This is an exact analog to the setting of this flag in hot_add_disk
      methods.
      
      Currently, only v1.x metadata supports having devices in an array
      which are not fully in-sync (it keep track of how in sync they are).
      The 'fullsync' flag only makes a difference when a write-intent bitmap
      is being used.  In this case it tells recovery to ignore the bitmap
      and recovery all blocks.
      
      This fix is already in place for raid1, but not raid5/6 or raid10.
      
      So without this fix, a raid1 ir raid4/5/6 array with version 1.x
      metadata and a write intent bitmaps, that is stopped in the middle
      of a recovery, will appear to complete the recovery instantly
      after it is reassembled, but the recovery will not be correct.
      
      If you might have an array like that, issueing
         echo repair > /sys/block/mdXX/md/sync_action
      
      will make sure recovery completes properly.
      
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      8c2e870a
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