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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-04-14 12:01:57 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-04-14 12:01:57 +1000
commit6d56e278444bc8323b1bcfcada126b8e4dbba0f4 (patch)
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parent63fe08177f92ce21929df8af6361491b98ad12cd (diff)
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md: allow setting newly added device to 'in_sync' via sysfs.
When adding devices to an active array via sysfs, there is currently no way to mark a device as 'in-sync' which is useful when incrementally assembling an array. So add that option. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index ed5727c089a9..298731b8e951 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -2086,6 +2086,7 @@ state_store(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, const char *buf, size_t len)
* -writemostly - clears write_mostly
* blocked - sets the Blocked flag
* -blocked - clears the Blocked flag
+ * insync - sets Insync providing device isn't active
*/
int err = -EINVAL;
if (cmd_match(buf, "faulty") && rdev->mddev->pers) {
@@ -2118,6 +2119,9 @@ state_store(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, const char *buf, size_t len)
md_wakeup_thread(rdev->mddev->thread);
err = 0;
+ } else if (cmd_match(buf, "insync") && rdev->raid_disk == -1) {
+ set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags);
+ err = 0;
}
if (!err && rdev->sysfs_state)
sysfs_notify_dirent(rdev->sysfs_state);
@@ -2190,7 +2194,7 @@ slot_store(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, const char *buf, size_t len)
} else if (rdev->mddev->pers) {
mdk_rdev_t *rdev2;
/* Activating a spare .. or possibly reactivating
- * if we every get bitmaps working here.
+ * if we ever get bitmaps working here.
*/
if (rdev->raid_disk != -1)