> -----Original Message----- > From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 2:06 PM > To: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>; linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx; Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>; hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; > Kernel Team <Kernel-team@xxxxxx>; Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mdadm: re-add journal to array with bad journal > > On Wed, Dec 02 2015, Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > These patches try to recreate missing/faulty journal in mdadm. Since > > the array is readonly with journal missing, it is necessary to restart > > the array after recreating journal. > > > > Song Liu (3): > > add sysfs_array_state to struct mdinfo > > [mdadm] recreate journal in mdadm > > make .spec file work > > I didn't get that third patch??? That's my local hack to .spec file. Didn't mean to send it. > > The patches generally look good, but it bothers me that you have to stop and > restart the array for the added journal to work. Can we just teach the kernel to > accept a new journal on an active array, and then use that functionality in > mdadm? > That is certainly what I want in the longer term and I'm not sure it makes sense > to have a half-way "--add-journal" that doesn't do the whole job. We will look into hot_add option. Thanks, Song -- 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
