Neil, I will be back with that subject with a patch (or an explanation ;)). Marcin Labun > -----Original Message----- > From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 2:34 AM > To: Labun, Marcin > Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Kwolek, Adam > Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill-subarray: fix, IMSM cannot kill-subarray with > unsupported metadata > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:23:03 +0000 "Labun, Marcin" > <Marcin.Labun@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Hi Neil, > > This is OK. > > However, reshape_container (called from Grow_continue_command) > ignores info that is chosen by subarray string given by user. > > Therefore, all container's arrays are possibly grown (including those > > we want to block) So we need to patch Grow_continue, so it performs > grow on the array that user requested, not all arrays that are in the > reshape process. > > Thanks, > > Marcin > > > > I don't think I understand... > > When continuing a grow the user shouldn't need to specify which > subarray needs to be continued. That information is in the metadata. > So use just says "--grow --continue" and mdadm looks at the container > to see which arrays are in the middle of a reshape and continues those. > If one of them is such that the next array must be reshaped when this > one completes, that should just happen automatically too. > > ?? > > NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
