From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 04:44:20 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: Grow: make warning about old metadata more explicit.
X-Git-Tag: mdadm-3.3-rc1~208
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=676ab3120b2ebfbe019ba3138a031eb616810c7b;p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git

Grow: make warning about old metadata more explicit.

Don't print it just when --verbose is set, and explain how
to over-ride it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/Grow.c b/Grow.c
index 6da93978..18fb3ee1 100644
--- a/Grow.c
+++ b/Grow.c
@@ -3775,9 +3775,8 @@ int Grow_restart(struct supertype *st, struct mdinfo *info, int *fdlist, int cnt
 					(unsigned long)__le64_to_cpu(bsb.mtime),
 					(unsigned long)info->array.utime);
 			} else {
-				if (verbose)
-					pr_err("too-old timestamp on "
-						"backup-metadata on %s\n", devname);
+				pr_err("too-old timestamp on backup-metadata on %s\n", devname);
+				pr_err("If you think it is should be safe, try 'export MDADM_GROW_ALLOW_OLD=1'\n");
 				continue; /* time stamp is too bad */
 			}
 		}