Re: [PATCH] mdadm: add man page for --add-journal

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Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 13/08/2016 00:58, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> writes:
>>> Add the following to man page:
>>>
>>> --add-journal
>>>        Recreate journal for RAID-4/5/6 array that losts journal
>>>        devices. In current implementation, this command cannot
>>>        add journal to an array that had failed journal.  To
>>>        avoid  interrupting  on-going  write  opertions,
>>>        --add-journal only works for array in Read-Only state.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   mdadm.8.in | 8 ++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>> Applied, with a few minor mods.
>>
>> I changed it to say this, I hope you are fine with that:
>>
>> "Recreate journal for RAID-4/5/6 array that lost a journal device. In the
>> current implementation, this command cannot add a journal to an array
>> that had a failed journal. To avoid interrupting on-going write
>> opertions, "
> I think this might be more correct:
>
> "Recreate journal for RAID-4/5/6 array that lost a journal device. In the
> current implementation, this command cannot add a journal to an array
> that *has* a failed journal. To avoid interrupting on-going write
> *operations*, "
>
>
> Note the two words modified have **
> has mean currently, if it had (past) a failed journal, but that has
> already been fixed, then it currently has a working journal, and so I
> assume this patch is not relevant. It's only related to if the array
> is currently missing a journal...
> The second operations is just a typo...
>
> Hope you don't mind my jumping in here, I can't help much with code,
> but hopefully contribution is still helpful.

If Song is happy with this and you send me a patch, I'll be happy to
apply it.

Cheers,
Jes
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