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author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2008-04-30 00:52:30 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-30 08:29:32 -0700 |
commit | 31a59e3425d32743738e043c1df1668e0f22bbab (patch) | |
tree | 0329549fd16aeedb767511e6a58df3ed84f463c7 /drivers/char/nwflash.c | |
parent | d897dbf91490f26dccef3d7056ffd09eb83a15a5 (diff) |
md: fix 'safemode' handling for external metadata.
'safemode' relates to marking an array as 'clean' if there has been no write
traffic for a while (a couple of seconds), to reduce the chance of the array
being found dirty on reboot.
->safemode is set to '1' when there have been no write for a while, and it
gets set to '0' when the superblock is updates with the 'clean' flag set.
This requires a few fixes for 'external' metadata:
- When an array is set to 'clean' via sysfs, 'safemode' must be cleared.
- when we write to an array that has 'safemode' set (there must have been
some delay in updating the metadata), we need to clear safemode.
- Don't try to update external metadata in md_check_recovery for safemode
transitions - it won't work.
Also, don't try to support "immediate safe mode" (safemode==2) for external
metadata, it cannot really work (the safemode timeout can be set very low if
this is really needed).
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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