DM RAID: Add message/status support for changing sync action
This patch adds a message interface to dm-raid to allow the user to more
finely control the sync actions being performed by the MD driver. This
gives the user the ability to initiate "check" and "repair" (i.e. scrubbing).
Two additional fields have been appended to the status output to provide more
information about the type of sync action occurring and the results of those
actions, specifically: <sync_action> and <mismatch_cnt>. These new fields
will always be populated. This is essentially the device-mapper way of doing
what MD controls through the 'sync_action' sysfs file and shows through the
'mismatch_cnt' sysfs file.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
mostly little bugfixes.
Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly
improves the number of sets of devices that can concurrently
fail, without data loss.
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Merge tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
"Mostly little bugfixes.
Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly improves the
number of sets of devices that can concurrently fail, without data
loss."
* tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: expedite metadata update when switching read-auto -> active
md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()
md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.
DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 1)
MD RAID10: Minor non-functional code changes
md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with
bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal
block layer use of 'request'.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.
When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.
However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.
If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.
In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.
This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
Until now, dm-raid.c only supported the "near" algorthm of MD's RAID10
implementation. This patch adds support for the "far" and "offset"
algorithms, but only with the improved redundancy that is brought with
the introduction of the 'use_far_sets' bit, which shifts copied stripes
according to smaller sets vs the entire array. That is, the 17th bit
of the 'layout' variable that defines the RAID10 implementation will
always be set. (More information on how the 'layout' variable selects
the RAID10 algorithm can be found in the opening comments of
drivers/md/raid10.c.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Before attempting to activate a RAID array, it is checked for sufficient
redundancy. That is, we make sure that there are not too many failed
devices - or devices specified for rebuild - to undermine our ability to
activate the array. The current code performs this check twice - once to
ensure there were not too many devices specified for rebuild by the user
('validate_rebuild_devices') and again after possibly experiencing a failure
to read the superblock ('analyse_superblocks'). Neither of these checks are
sufficient. The first check is done properly but with insufficient
information about the possible failure state of the devices to make a good
determination if the array can be activated. The second check is simply
done wrong in the case of RAID10 because it doesn't account for the
independence of the stripes (i.e. mirror sets). The solution is to use the
properly written check ('validate_rebuild_devices'), but perform the check
after the superblocks have been read and we know which devices have failed.
This gives us one check instead of two and performs it in a location where
it can be done right.
Only RAID10 was affected and it was affected in the following ways:
- the code did not properly catch the condition where a user specified
a device for rebuild that already had a failed device in the same mirror
set. (This condition would, however, be caught at a deeper level in MD.)
- the code triggers a false positive and denies activation when devices in
independent mirror sets have failed - counting the failures as though they
were all in the same set.
The most likely place this error was introduced (or this patch should have
been included) is in commit 4ec1e369 - first introduced in v3.7-rc1.
Consequently this fix should also go in v3.7.y, however there is a
small conflict on the .version in raid_target, so I'll submit a
separate patch to -stable.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch removes map_info from bio-based device mapper targets.
map_info is still used for request-based targets.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If the user does not supply a bitmap region_size to the dm raid target,
a reasonable size is computed automatically. If this is not a power of 2,
the md code will report an error later.
This patch catches the problem early and rounds the region_size to the
next power of two.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
There are two table arguments that can be given to a DM RAID target
that control whether the array is forced to (re)synchronize or skip
initialization: "sync" and "nosync". When "sync" is given, we set
mddev->recovery_cp to 0 in order to cause the device to resynchronize.
This is insufficient if there is a bitmap in use, because the array
will simply look at the bitmap and see that there is no recovery
necessary.
The fix is to skip over the loading of the superblocks when "sync" is
given, causing new superblocks to be written that will force the array
to go through initialization (i.e. synchronization).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DM RAID: Fix comparison of index and quantity for "rebuild" parameter
The "rebuild" parameter takes an index argument that starts counting from
zero. The conditional used to validate the index was using '>' rather than
'>=', leaving the door open for an index value that would be 1 too large.
Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DM RAID: Add code to validate replacement slots for RAID10 arrays
RAID10 can handle 'copies - 1' failures for each mirror group. This code
ensures the user has provided a valid array - one whose devices specified for
rebuild do not exceed the amount of redundancy available.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DM RAID: Move chunk of code to it's own function
The code that checks whether device replacements/rebuilds are possible given
a specific RAID type is moved to it's own function. It will further expand
when the code to check RAID10 is added. A separate function makes it easier
to read.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Pull md updates from NeilBrown.
* 'for-next' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
DM RAID: Add support for MD RAID10
md/RAID1: Add missing case for attempting to repair known bad blocks.
md/raid5: For odirect-write performance, do not set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE.
md/raid1: don't abort a resync on the first badblock.
md: remove duplicated test on ->openers when calling do_md_stop()
raid5: Add R5_ReadNoMerge flag which prevent bio from merging at block layer
md/raid1: prevent merging too large request
md/raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD
md/raid1: make sequential read detection per disk based
MD RAID10: Export md_raid10_congested
MD: Move macros from raid1*.h to raid1*.c
MD RAID1: rename mirror_info structure
MD RAID10: rename mirror_info structure
MD RAID10: Fix compiler warning.
raid5: add a per-stripe lock
raid5: remove unnecessary bitmap write optimization
raid5: lockless access raid5 overrided bi_phys_segments
raid5: reduce chance release_stripe() taking device_lock
Commit outstanding metadata before returning the status for a dm thin
pool so that the numbers reported are as up-to-date as possible.
The commit is not performed if the device is suspended or if
the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG is supplied by userspace and passed to the target
through a new 'status_flags' parameter in the target's dm_status_fn.
The userspace dmsetup tool will support the --noflush flag with the
'dmsetup status' and 'dmsetup wait' commands from version 1.02.76
onwards.
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
In preparation for RAID10 inclusion in dm-raid, we move the sectors_per_dev
calculation later in the device creation process. This is because we won't
know up-front how many stripes vs how many mirrors there are which will
change the calculation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
In preparation for RAID10 addition to dm-raid, we change an 'if' conditional
to a 'switch' conditional to make it easier to see what is being checked for
each RAID type.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove the restriction that limits a target's specified maximum incoming
I/O size to be a power of 2.
Rename this setting from 'split_io' to the less-ambiguous 'max_io_len'.
Change it from sector_t to uint32_t, which is plenty big enough, and
introduce a wrapper function dm_set_target_max_io_len() to set it.
Use sector_div() to process it now that it is not necessarily a power of 2.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
When encountering an error while reading the superblock, call md_error.
We are currently setting the 'Faulty' bit on one of the array devices when an
error is encountered while reading the superblock of a dm-raid array. We should
be calling md_error(), as it handles the error more completely.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Missing dm-raid devices should be recorded in the superblock
When specifying the devices that compose a DM RAID array, it is possible to denote
failed or missing devices with '-'s. When this occurs, we must record this in the
superblock. We do this by checking if the array position's data device is missing
and then forcing MD to record the superblock by setting 'MD_CHANGE_DEVS' in
'raid_resume'. If we do not cause the superblock to be rewritten by the resume
function, it is possible for a stale superblock to be written by an out-going
in-active table (during 'raid_dtr').
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Properly initialize MD recovery flags when resuming device-mapper devices.
When a device-mapper device is suspended, all I/O must stop. This is done by
calling 'md_stop_writes' and 'mddev_suspend'. These calls in-turn manipulate
the recovery flags - including setting 'MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN'. The DM device
may have been suspended while recovery was not yet complete, so the process
needs to pick-up where it left off. Since 'mddev_resume' does not unset
'MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN' and set 'MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED', we must do it ourselves.
'MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED' can safely be set in 'mddev_resume', but 'MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN'
must be set outside of 'mddev_resume' due to how MD handles RAID reshaping.
(e.g. It is possible for a user to delay reshaping a RAID5->RAID6 by purposefully
setting 'MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN'. Clearing it in 'mddev_resume' would override the
desired behavior.)
Because 'mddev_resume' already unconditionally calls 'md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread)'
there is no need to make this call from 'raid_resume' since it calls 'mddev_resume'.
Also clean up where level_store calls mddev_resume() - it current
duplicates some of the funcitons of that call. - NB
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
dm-raid currently open-codes the freeing of some members of
and rdev. It is more maintainable to have it call common code
from md.c which does this for all call-sites.
So remove free_disk_sb to md_rdev_clear, export it, and use it in
dm-raid.c
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fix segfault caused by using rdev_for_each instead of rdev_for_each_safe
Commit dafb20fa34 mistakenly replaced a safe
iterator with an unsafe one when making some macro changes.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The dm-raid code currently fails to create a RAID array if any of the
superblocks cannot be read. This was an oversight as there is already
code to handle this case if the values ('- -') were provided for the
failed array position.
With this patch, if a superblock cannot be read, the array position's
fields are initialized as though '- -' was set in the table. That is,
the device is failed and the position should not be used, but if there
is sufficient redundancy, the array should still be activated.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
md.h has an 'rdev_for_each()' macro for iterating the rdevs in an
mddev. However it uses the 'safe' version of list_for_each_entry,
and so requires the extra variable, but doesn't include 'safe' in the
name, which is useful documentation.
Consequently some places use this safe version without needing it, and
many use an explicity list_for_each entry.
So:
- rename rdev_for_each to rdev_for_each_safe
- create a new rdev_for_each which uses the plain
list_for_each_entry,
- use the 'safe' version only where needed, and convert all other
list_for_each_entry calls to use rdev_for_each.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fix dm-raid flush support.
Both md and dm have support for flush, but the dm-raid target
forgot to set the flag to indicate that flushes should be
passed on. (Important for data integrity e.g. with writeback cache
enabled.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The 'rebuild' parameter is used to rebuild individual devices in an
array (e.g. resynchronize a RAID1 device or recalculate a parity device
in higher RAID). The MD_CHANGE_DEVS flag must be set when this
parameter is given in order to write out the superblocks and make the
change take immediate effect. The code that handles new devices in
super_load already sets MD_CHANGE_DEVS and 'FirstUse'. (The 'FirstUse'
flag was being set as a special case for rebuilds in
super_init_validation.)
Add a condition for rebuilds in super_load to take care of both flags
without the special case in 'super_init_validation'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The life cycle of a device-mapper target is:
1) create
2) resume
3) suspend
*) possibly repeat from 2
4) destroy
The dm-raid target is unconditionally calling MD's bitmap_load function upon
every resume. If steps 2 & 3 above are repeated, bitmap_load is called
multiple times. It is only written to be called once; otherwise, it allocates
new memory for the bitmap (without freeing the old) and incrementing the number
of pages it thinks it has without zeroing first. This ultimately leads to
access beyond allocated memory and lost memory.
Simply avoiding the bitmap_load call upon resume is not sufficient. If the
target was suspended while the initial recovery was only partially complete,
it needs to be restarted when the target is resumed. This is why
'md_wakeup_thread' is called before issuing the 'mddev_resume'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
A pending cleanup will mean that module.h won't be implicitly
everywhere anymore. Make sure the modular drivers in md dir
are actually calling out for <module.h> explicitly in advance.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
When devices in a RAID array are not in-sync, they are supposed to be
reported as such in the status output as an 'a' character, which means
"alive, but not in-sync". But when the entire array is rebuilt 'A' is
being used, which is incorrect. This patch corrects this to 'a'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The typedefs are just annoying. 'mdk' probably refers to 'md_k.h'
which used to be an include file that defined this thing.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fix off-by-one error in validation of write_mostly.
The user-supplied value given for the 'write_mostly' argument must be an
index starting at 0. The validation of the supplied argument failed to
check for 'N' ('>' vs '>='), which would have caused an access beyond the
end of the array.
Reported-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Support the MD RAID1 personality through dm-raid.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add the ability to parse and use metadata devices to dm-raid. Although
not strictly required, without the metadata devices, many features of
RAID are unavailable. They are used to store a superblock and bitmap.
The role, or position in the array, of each device must be recorded in
its superblock. This is to help with fault handling, array reshaping,
and sanity checks. RAID 4/5/6 devices must be loaded in a specific order:
in this way, the 'array_position' field helps validate the correctness
of the mapping when it is loaded. It can be used during reshaping to
identify which devices are added/removed. Fault handling is impossible
without this field. For example, when a device fails it is recorded in
the superblock. If this is a RAID1 device and the offending device is
removed from the array, there must be a way during subsequent array
assembly to determine that the failed device was the one removed. This
is done by correlating the 'array_position' field and the bit-field
variable 'failed_devices'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add the write_mostly parameter to RAID1 dm-raid tables.
This allows the user to set the WriteMostly flag on a RAID1 device that
should normally be avoided for read I/O.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Allow the user to specify the region_size.
Ensures that the supplied value meets md's constraints, viz. the number of
regions does not exceed 2^21.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Re-order the parameters so they are handled consistently in the same order
where defined, parsed and output.
Only include rebuild parameters in the STATUSTYPE_TABLE output if they were
supplied in the original table line.
Correct the parameter count when outputting rebuild: there are two words,
not one.
Use case-independent checks for keywords (as in other device-mapper targets).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Now that unplugging is done differently, the unplug_fn callback is
never called, so it can be completely discarded.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch is the skeleton for the DM target that will be
the bridge from DM to MD (initially RAID456 and later RAID1). It
provides a way to use device-mapper interfaces to the MD RAID456
drivers.
As with all device-mapper targets, the nominal public interfaces are the
constructor (CTR) tables and the status outputs (both STATUSTYPE_INFO
and STATUSTYPE_TABLE). The CTR table looks like the following:
1: <s> <l> raid \
2: <raid_type> <#raid_params> <raid_params> \
3: <#raid_devs> <meta_dev1> <dev1> .. <meta_devN> <devN>
Line 1 contains the standard first three arguments to any device-mapper
target - the start, length, and target type fields. The target type in
this case is "raid".
Line 2 contains the arguments that define the particular raid
type/personality/level, the required arguments for that raid type, and
any optional arguments. Possible raid types include: raid4, raid5_la,
raid5_ls, raid5_rs, raid6_zr, raid6_nr, and raid6_nc. (again, raid1 is
planned for the future.) The list of required and optional parameters
is the same for all the current raid types. The required parameters are
positional, while the optional parameters are given as key/value pairs.
The possible parameters are as follows:
<chunk_size> Chunk size in sectors.
[[no]sync] Force/Prevent RAID initialization
[rebuild <idx>] Rebuild the drive indicated by the index
[daemon_sleep <ms>] Time between bitmap daemon work to clear bits
[min_recovery_rate <kB/sec/disk>] Throttle RAID initialization
[max_recovery_rate <kB/sec/disk>] Throttle RAID initialization
[max_write_behind <value>] See '-write-behind=' (man mdadm)
[stripe_cache <sectors>] Stripe cache size for higher RAIDs
Line 3 contains the list of devices that compose the array in
metadata/data device pairs. If the metadata is stored separately, a '-'
is given for the metadata device position. If a drive has failed or is
missing at creation time, a '-' can be given for both the metadata and
data drives for a given position.
Examples:
# RAID4 - 4 data drives, 1 parity
# No metadata devices specified to hold superblock/bitmap info
# Chunk size of 1MiB
# (Lines separated for easy reading)
0 1960893648 raid \
raid4 1 2048 \
5 - 8:17 - 8:33 - 8:49 - 8:65 - 8:81
# RAID4 - 4 data drives, 1 parity (no metadata devices)
# Chunk size of 1MiB, force RAID initialization,
# min recovery rate at 20 kiB/sec/disk
0 1960893648 raid \
raid4 4 2048 min_recovery_rate 20 sync\
5 - 8:17 - 8:33 - 8:49 - 8:65 - 8:81
Performing a 'dmsetup table' should display the CTR table used to
construct the mapping (with possible reordering of optional
parameters).
Performing a 'dmsetup status' will yield information on the state and
health of the array. The output is as follows:
1: <s> <l> raid \
2: <raid_type> <#devices> <1 health char for each dev> <resync_ratio>
Line 1 is standard DM output. Line 2 is best shown by example:
0 1960893648 raid raid4 5 AAAAA 2/490221568
Here we can see the RAID type is raid4, there are 5 devices - all of
which are 'A'live, and the array is 2/490221568 complete with recovery.
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Jonathan Brassow