Your message dated Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:30:58 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#628668: mdadm: Impossible to clear the write-mostly flag in metadata has caused the Debian Bug report #628668, regarding mdadm: Impossible to clear the write-mostly flag in metadata to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: mdadm Version: 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1 Severity: normal When turning off write-mostly on a device in an active raid1 array, using something like this: echo -writemostly >/sys/block/md127/md/dev-md2/state write-mostly is turned off: flash:~ >mdadm -D /dev/md127 /dev/md127: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu Oct 15 13:32:06 2009 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 312581688 (298.10 GiB 320.08 GB) Used Dev Size : 312581688 (298.10 GiB 320.08 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue May 31 10:35:15 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Name : flash:mirror1 (local to host flash) UUID : 066d46b2:5ca5113d:261cfcc0:626c2d62 Events : 842 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 3 9 2 0 active sync /dev/md/2 2 8 3 1 active sync writemostly /dev/sda3 flash:~ > But the metadata isn't updated: flash:~ >mdadm -E /dev/md/2 /dev/md/2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 066d46b2:5ca5113d:261cfcc0:626c2d62 Name : flash:mirror1 (local to host flash) Creation Time : Thu Oct 15 13:32:06 2009 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 625163376 (298.10 GiB 320.08 GB) Array Size : 625163376 (298.10 GiB 320.08 GB) Data Offset : 144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : c995047e:7f56e673:9fc386be:dac782e1 Flags : write-mostly Update Time : Tue May 31 10:29:08 2011 Checksum : 8020a873 - correct Events : 842 Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) flash:~ > And after a reboot, md2 is flagged as writemostly again. / Anders
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 3.1 On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:45:24PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:37:53 +0200 (CEST) Anders Boström > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The 'write-mostly' flag can be changed through sysfs. > With 0.90 metadata, those changes are reflected in the metadata. > For 1.x metadata, they aren't. > > So fix super_1_sync to record 'write-mostly' status. Fixed in 3.1 with http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aeb9b211849621f592288ed5ad694de9eeaae87a Cheers, Moritz
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