Thanks, Neil. What we do now: - we refuse freezing/re-adding drives if array is not idle or recovering (e.g., resyncing) - otherwise, we freeze, add/re-add drives, unfreeze Thanks! Alex. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:11 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:26:38 +0300 Alexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> > Why do you refuse to freeze the array if it's not "idle"? What will >> > happen is that current recover/resync will abort, drives will be >> > added, and on unfreezing, array will resume (restart?) recovery with >> > all drives. If array was resyncing, however, it will start recovering >> > the newly added drives, because kernel prefers recovery over resync >> > (as we discussed earlier). >> Indeed, since dea3786ae2cf74ecb0087d1bea1aa04e9091ad5c, I see that you >> agree to freeze the array also in case it is recovering. > > I guess I did..... though I don't remember seeing the email that you have > quoted. I can see it in my inbox, but it seems that I never replied. Maybe > I was too busy that day :-( > > If there other outstanding issues, feel free to resend. > (If I don't reply it is more likely to be careless than deliberate, so in > general you should feel free to resend if I don't respond in a week or so). > > 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
