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1 | Changes Prior to this release | |
2 | Changes Prior to 1.0.9 release | |
3 | - Documentation updates including kernel parameters documented | |
4 | in md.4 | |
5 | - --assemble --force for raid4/5 will mark clean, needed for 2.5 | |
6 | - --detail prints out the events counter as well | |
7 | - flush device before reading superblock to be sure to get | |
8 | current data | |
9 | - added mdadm.static target to makefile for static linking | |
10 | - --monitor was ignoring /dev/md0 due to off-by-one error | |
11 | - Fix assorted typos | |
12 | - Fix printing of Gibibytes - calc was wrong. | |
13 | - Fix printing of Array Size in --detail when very big. | |
14 | - --monitor no longer tries to work for raid0 or linear as these | |
15 | have nothing to be monitors. | |
16 | - The word 'partitions' on a DEVICE line will cause all partitions | |
17 | listed in /proc/partitions to be considered | |
18 | - If the config file is called 'partitions' then it will be treated | |
19 | as though it contained exactly 'device partitions' so e.g. | |
20 | mdadm -Ebsc partitions | |
21 | will fill all raid partitions easily. | |
22 | - successfully assemble multipath devices by ignoring raid_disk | |
23 | value from superblock (it is always the same). | |
24 | - --assemble not tied to MD_SB_DISKS limit quite so much | |
25 | - Support compiling with tcc | |
26 | - Support compiling with uclibc - just skip scan of /dev | |
27 | - Add --update= option for Assemble mode. Either sparc2.2 | |
28 | or super-minor updates are possible. See mdadm.8 | |
29 | ||
30 | Changes Prior to 1.0.1 release | |
31 | - Round off MB/GiB etc values instead of round down. | |
32 | - Add --sparc2.2 option to examine to shift superblock around | |
33 | and --sparc2.2update to rewrite the superblock | |
34 | - Fix assorted typos in online help | |
35 | ||
36 | Changes Prior to 1.0.0 release | |
37 | - Allow --config with Misc mode (for --examine --scan) | |
38 | - Add $(CXFLAGS) to end of CFLAGS in makefile | |
39 | - When making an N disk raid5 array, the Nth drive | |
40 | is moved to the end of the array as a spare rather than | |
41 | being shifted up one place. This means that when the | |
42 | kernel builds onto the last spare and inserts it, | |
43 | the devices will be in the expected order. | |
44 | - Man page improvements | |
45 | Changes Prior to 0.8.2 release | |
46 | - Correct spelling of persist[ae]nce/persist[ae]nt. | |
47 | - Change "disk" to "device" in options and config file | |
48 | - convert array size to "long long" *before* shift-left in -D and -Q | |
49 | ||
50 | Changes Prior to 0.8.1 release | |
51 | - Add "INSTALL" file. | |
52 | - Fix some "i" variables that were not being set properly | |
53 | - Initialise minsize and maxsize so that compilers don't complain. | |
54 | - Tidy up Makefile and mdadm.spec installations | |
55 | - Add "multipath" to documentation of valid levels | |
56 | ||
57 | Changes Prior to 0.8 release | |
58 | - Fix another bug in Assemble.c due to confusing 'i' with 'j' | |
59 | - Minimal, untested, support for multipath | |
60 | - re-write of argument parsing to have more coherent modes, | |
61 | - add --query,-Q option | |
62 | - Update mdadm.8 to reflect arg processing change and --query | |
63 | - Change "long" to "unsigned long" for device sizes | |
64 | - Handle "mailaddr" and "program" lines in config file for follow/scan mode. | |
65 | - --follow --scan will exit if no program or mail found | |
66 | - Add MAILADDR and PROGRAM to mdadm.conf-example | |
67 | - Spell check man pages | |
68 | - consistently use "component devices" instead of "subdevices" | |
69 | - Make -Wall -Werror really work and fix lots of errors. | |
70 | - --detail and --stop can have --scan which chooses devices from /proc/mdstat | |
71 | - --monitor detects 20% changes in resync, failed spares, | |
72 | disappearing arrays, | |
73 | - --monitor --scan will automatically add any devices found in /proc/mdstat | |
74 | - --monitor will move spares between arrays with same spare-group if necessary | |
75 | - Documentation for Monitor Mode | |
76 | - --query notes if the array containing the given device is active or not | |
77 | - Finished md.4 man page. | |
78 | ||
79 | Changes Prior to 0.7.2 release | |
80 | - mdadm.spec updates and ifdef BLKGETSIZE64 from Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it | |
81 | - more mdadm.spec updates from Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@linuxweasel.com> | |
82 | - make directory for mdadm.conf configurable in Makefile | |
83 | - Finished mdadm.conf.5. Removed details of conf file from | |
84 | mdadm.8 leaving a reference to mdadm.conf.5. | |
85 | - Fix bug in Assemble.c, thanks to Junaid Rizvi <domdev@sat.net.pk> | |
86 | - Get --assemble --force to make sure old major/minor numbers are | |
87 | consistant, as md.c worries about this :-( | |
88 | ||
89 | ||
90 | Changes Prior to 0.7.1 release | |
91 | - update mdadm.spec | |
92 | - use BLKGETSIZE64 if available for array size | |
93 | - give human readable as GiB/MiB and GB and MB, with 2 decimal point precision | |
94 | - Only warn about size variation for raid1/4/5. | |
95 | - Started md.4 man page | |
96 | - Started mdadm.conf.5 man page | |
97 | ||
98 | Changes Prior to 0.7 release | |
99 | ||
100 | - Fix makefile to install binary at /sbin and not /sbin/sbin | |
101 | Also install man page. | |
102 | - Add --zero-superblock based on --destroywithextremeprejudice | |
103 | from Dale Stephenson <steph@snapserver.com> | |
104 | - change name to mdadm. It is palandromic, and much nicer to pronouce. | |
105 | ||
106 | Changes Prior to 0.6 release | |
107 | ||
108 | - Remove the limit on the number of device names that can be | |
109 | given on the command line. | |
110 | - Fix bug in --assemble --force where it would only update a | |
111 | single superblock. | |
112 | - Fix bogus printing of big numbers not being block devices | |
113 | when given names of devices that don't exist. | |
114 | - When --assemble --force, consider superblocks with an event | |
115 | count that is 1 behind as out-of-date. Normally they are | |
116 | considered up-to-date (as the kernel assumes this too). | |
117 | - When marking drives as not-failed in the superblock, | |
118 | we also mark them as ACTIVE and SYNC. | |
119 | - Don't start arrays for which not all drives are available unless: | |
120 | --scan which implies that all drives were found automatically | |
121 | --run which means the user knows what they want | |
122 | --force which means that we are fixing something broken | |
123 | - Make sure all device numbers passed as 3rd arg of ioctl | |
124 | are passed as unsigned lock, so that it works on SPARC | |
125 | - If HOT_ADD_DISK failes for -a, then only try ADD_NEW_DISK | |
126 | if we cannot read from the array, i.e. if the array is | |
127 | not started yet. | |
128 | - man page update | |
129 | - Taught Examine to handle --scan. It examines all devices listed | |
130 | on DEVICE lines in the config file. | |
131 | - Added --brief (-b) flag for Examine and Detail to print out | |
132 | and mdctl.conf compatible description with uuid=, level=, | |
133 | disks= and - for Examine - devices= | |
134 | --examine --brief collects all devices the make the one array and | |
135 | list them as one entry. | |
136 | - Added level= and disks= options to ARRAY lines in config files | |
137 | so --brief output could be used as-is. | |
138 | - Make parity style ({left,right}-{,a}symmetric) consistantly use -, | |
139 | never _. | |
140 | - Add "Array Size" to --detail output | |
141 | - Change "Size" to "Device Size" and exclude from Detail of arrays | |
142 | that do not have a consistent device size. | |
143 | - Add Human readable MiB or GiB value on size lines of Detail and Examine | |
144 | - --assemble --scan doesn't complain about active drives | |
145 | - require number of spares given in -x to be listed. | |
146 | - Made --build actually work. | |
147 | Changes Prior to 0.5 release | |
148 | ||
149 | --assemble: | |
150 | spare drives are handled properly. | |
151 | ||
152 | --force can be used to recover from 2-drive failures on RAID5 | |
153 | If you belive that /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1 should | |
154 | make a raid5 array, but it has experienced multiple failures and | |
155 | wont start, then | |
156 | ||
157 | mdctl --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/hd[abcd]1 | |
158 | ||
159 | Should update the superblock on the newest failed drive and | |
160 | restart the array in degraded mode. You should then remove the | |
161 | remaining failed drive and re-add it (if you are happy that it | |
162 | might work). | |
163 | ||
164 | Ofcourse whenever you have a 2-drive failure, you have a risk | |
165 | of corruption in data that hasn't be changed for a long time. So | |
166 | this doesn't give you your array back all nice and happy, but it | |
167 | does allow you to recover data that might not be corrupt. | |
168 | ||
169 | More flexibility in identifying a RAID array in the mdctl.conf | |
170 | e.g. | |
171 | array /dev/md4 super-minor=4 | |
172 | ||
173 | assembles /dev/md4 from all devices found that have a raid | |
174 | superblock that says the minor number of the array is 4. | |
175 | If the blocks with the right minor number do not all have the | |
176 | same UUID, an error is flags and no assembly happens. | |
177 | ||
178 | array /dev/md3 devices=/dev/hd[abc]2 | |
179 | ||
180 | Assembles /dev/md3 drom /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 and/dev/hdc2. All | |
181 | devices must exist and have raid superblock with the same uuid. | |
182 | ||
183 | If two identity specifiers are used, only devices that match all | |
184 | of them are considered, so | |
185 | ||
186 | array /dev/md2 devices=/dev/hd?2 super-minor=2 | |
187 | ||
188 | will assemble /dev/md2 using all /dev/hd?2 devices which have a | |
189 | raid superblock with minor number 2. | |
190 | ||
191 | --create: | |
192 | When listing devices for --create, the word "missing" can be | |
193 | used to indicate that the respective slot does not have a | |
194 | working drive currently. This is similar to the "failed-disk" | |
195 | directive in mkraid/raidtab. | |
196 | e.g. | |
197 | mdctl --create --level=5 -raid-disks=4 --spare-disks=2 | |
198 | /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb missing /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde | |
199 | ||
200 | will create a raid5 array with the third slot empty, and two | |
201 | spares. | |
202 | ||
203 | By default, raid5 arrays are created with the last slot empty | |
204 | and drive listed for the last slot added as a spare. If a | |
205 | "missing" slot is given, or if --force is given, then --create | |
206 | does exactly what you ask and doesn't try to be clever. | |
207 | ||
208 | ||
209 | --follow / --monitor: | |
210 | ||
211 | This is a new mode. I couldn't stop my self from picking a name | |
212 | starting with F (as current modes start A,B,C,D,E) but I | |
213 | relented and provided an alternate name that is somewhat more | |
214 | meaningful. | |
215 | ||
216 | In this mode, mdctl does not exit, but runs continuously and | |
217 | periodically polls all the md devices to see if they have had | |
218 | any interested state change. | |
219 | The changes that it currently notices are: | |
220 | Fail - an active disc fails | |
221 | FailSpare - a spare, that was presumably being build, fails | |
222 | ActiveSpare - a spare becomes active, presumably after a rebuild. | |
223 | ||
224 | Options: | |
225 | --mail mailaddress - send Email on any Fail* event | |
226 | --program program - run the program on any event. | |
227 | Args are: eventname mddevice subdevice(if-known) | |
228 | --delay seconds - change from the default 60second pause | |
229 | between polls. | |
230 | ||
231 | I plan to add functionality to this mode to allow sharing of | |
232 | spare drives. If an array is marks "spare-group=fred", and it | |
233 | has a failed drive and no spares, and if some other array is | |
234 | also "spare-group=fred" and it has no failed drives, but does | |
235 | have a spare drive that is big enough, the spare will be moved | |
236 | to the first array. | |
237 | ||
238 | I also have the idea of adding a --grow mode which will re-organise | |
239 | the data on an N disk raid0/4/5 array to be on an N+M disk array. | |
240 | I have no concrete plans for this though. | |
241 | ||
242 | I got rid of the "v" in the archive file name, and include the | |
243 | version number in the directory created by the archive. | |
244 | ||
245 | There is now a man page and mdctl.spec (for rpm) thanks to | |
246 | Danilo Godec <danci@agenda.si>. | |
247 | ||
248 | Ofcourse, the man page is now out of date and despite being based on | |
249 | the --help output, is not wholy correct. After I get --follow | |
250 | working properly, I plan to revise the various documentation and/or | |
251 | the code to make sure the two match. | |
252 |