linux/drivers/md
NeilBrown 9d09e663d5 dm: raid456 basic support
This patch is the skeleton for the DM target that will be
the bridge from DM to MD (initially RAID456 and later RAID1).  It
provides a way to use device-mapper interfaces to the MD RAID456
drivers.

As with all device-mapper targets, the nominal public interfaces are the
constructor (CTR) tables and the status outputs (both STATUSTYPE_INFO
and STATUSTYPE_TABLE).  The CTR table looks like the following:

1: <s> <l> raid \
2:	<raid_type> <#raid_params> <raid_params> \
3:	<#raid_devs> <meta_dev1> <dev1> .. <meta_devN> <devN>

Line 1 contains the standard first three arguments to any device-mapper
target - the start, length, and target type fields.  The target type in
this case is "raid".

Line 2 contains the arguments that define the particular raid
type/personality/level, the required arguments for that raid type, and
any optional arguments.  Possible raid types include: raid4, raid5_la,
raid5_ls, raid5_rs, raid6_zr, raid6_nr, and raid6_nc.  (again, raid1 is
planned for the future.)  The list of required and optional parameters
is the same for all the current raid types.  The required parameters are
positional, while the optional parameters are given as key/value pairs.
The possible parameters are as follows:
 <chunk_size>		Chunk size in sectors.
 [[no]sync]		Force/Prevent RAID initialization
 [rebuild <idx>]	Rebuild the drive indicated by the index
 [daemon_sleep <ms>]	Time between bitmap daemon work to clear bits
 [min_recovery_rate <kB/sec/disk>]	Throttle RAID initialization
 [max_recovery_rate <kB/sec/disk>]	Throttle RAID initialization
 [max_write_behind <value>]		See '-write-behind=' (man mdadm)
 [stripe_cache <sectors>]		Stripe cache size for higher RAIDs

Line 3 contains the list of devices that compose the array in
metadata/data device pairs.  If the metadata is stored separately, a '-'
is given for the metadata device position.  If a drive has failed or is
missing at creation time, a '-' can be given for both the metadata and
data drives for a given position.

Examples:
# RAID4 - 4 data drives, 1 parity
# No metadata devices specified to hold superblock/bitmap info
# Chunk size of 1MiB
# (Lines separated for easy reading)
0 1960893648 raid \
	raid4 1 2048 \
	5 - 8:17 - 8:33 - 8:49 - 8:65 - 8:81

# RAID4 - 4 data drives, 1 parity (no metadata devices)
# Chunk size of 1MiB, force RAID initialization,
#	min recovery rate at 20 kiB/sec/disk
0 1960893648 raid \
        raid4 4 2048 min_recovery_rate 20 sync\
        5 - 8:17 - 8:33 - 8:49 - 8:65 - 8:81

Performing a 'dmsetup table' should display the CTR table used to
construct the mapping (with possible reordering of optional
parameters).

Performing a 'dmsetup status' will yield information on the state and
health of the array.  The output is as follows:
1: <s> <l> raid \
2:	<raid_type> <#devices> <1 health char for each dev> <resync_ratio>

Line 1 is standard DM output.  Line 2 is best shown by example:
	0 1960893648 raid raid4 5 AAAAA 2/490221568
Here we can see the RAID type is raid4, there are 5 devices - all of
which are 'A'live, and the array is 2/490221568 complete with recovery.

Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-01-13 20:00:02 +00:00
..
bitmap.c md: unplug writes to external bitmaps. 2010-10-29 16:40:32 +11:00
bitmap.h md: use sector_t in bitmap_get_counter 2010-10-28 17:32:26 +11:00
dm-bio-record.h dm: preserve bi_io_vec when resubmitting bios 2009-04-02 19:55:23 +01:00
dm-crypt.c dm crypt: add loop aes iv generator 2011-01-13 19:59:55 +00:00
dm-delay.c dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered 2011-01-13 19:59:57 +00:00
dm-exception-store.c dm snapshot: test chunk size against both origin and snapshot 2010-08-12 04:13:51 +01:00
dm-exception-store.h dm snapshot: test chunk size against both origin and snapshot 2010-08-12 04:13:51 +01:00
dm-io.c dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm 2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
dm-ioctl.c dm ioctl: suppress needless warning messages 2011-01-13 19:59:55 +00:00
dm-kcopyd.c dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent 2011-01-13 19:59:58 +00:00
dm-linear.c dm: use dm_target_offset macro 2010-08-12 04:14:11 +01:00
dm-log-userspace-base.c dm log userspace: add version number to comms 2011-01-13 19:59:52 +00:00
dm-log-userspace-transfer.c dm log userspace: add version number to comms 2011-01-13 19:59:52 +00:00
dm-log-userspace-transfer.h dm log: userspace add luid to distinguish between concurrent log instances 2009-09-04 20:40:34 +01:00
dm-log.c dm log: use PTR_ERR value instead of ENOMEM 2011-01-13 20:00:00 +00:00
dm-mpath.c dm mpath: delay activate_path retry on SCSI_DH_RETRY 2011-01-13 20:00:01 +00:00
dm-mpath.h dm mpath: remove is_active from struct dm_path 2008-10-10 13:36:58 +01:00
dm-path-selector.c dm: path selector use module refcount directly 2009-04-02 19:55:27 +01:00
dm-path-selector.h dm mpath: add start_io and nr_bytes to path selectors 2009-06-22 10:12:27 +01:00
dm-queue-length.c dm mpath: add queue length load balancer 2009-06-22 10:12:27 +01:00
dm-raid.c dm: raid456 basic support 2011-01-13 20:00:02 +00:00
dm-raid1.c dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent 2011-01-13 19:59:58 +00:00
dm-region-hash.c dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm 2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
dm-round-robin.c dm mpath: add start_io and nr_bytes to path selectors 2009-06-22 10:12:27 +01:00
dm-service-time.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
dm-snap-persistent.c dm snapshot: persistent make metadata_wq multithreaded 2011-01-13 19:59:59 +00:00
dm-snap-transient.c dm snapshot: move cow ref from exception store to snap core 2009-12-10 23:52:12 +00:00
dm-snap.c dm snapshot: avoid storing private suspended state 2011-01-13 19:59:59 +00:00
dm-stripe.c dm stripe: switch from local workqueue to system_wq 2011-01-13 19:59:57 +00:00
dm-sysfs.c Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type 2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
dm-table.c dm: per target unplug callback support 2011-01-13 20:00:02 +00:00
dm-target.c dm: error return error for discards 2010-08-12 04:14:14 +01:00
dm-uevent.c dm table: remove dm_get from dm_table_get_md 2010-03-06 02:29:52 +00:00
dm-uevent.h
dm-zero.c dm: zero silently drop discards 2010-08-12 04:14:12 +01:00
dm.c dm: remove superfluous irq disablement in dm_request_fn 2011-01-13 20:00:00 +00:00
dm.h dm: linear support discard 2010-08-12 04:14:08 +01:00
faulty.c md: use separate bio pool for each md device. 2010-10-28 17:36:15 +11:00
Kconfig dm: raid456 basic support 2011-01-13 20:00:02 +00:00
linear.c md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support 2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
linear.h md/linear: use call_rcu to free obsolete 'conf' structures. 2009-06-18 08:49:42 +10:00
Makefile dm: raid456 basic support 2011-01-13 20:00:02 +00:00
md.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
md.h md: use separate bio pool for each md device. 2010-10-28 17:36:15 +11:00
multipath.c md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support 2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
multipath.h md: remove mddev_to_conf "helper" macro 2009-06-16 16:54:21 +10:00
raid0.c md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support 2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
raid0.h md: fix handling of array level takeover that re-arranges devices. 2010-06-24 13:33:24 +10:00
raid1.c md/raid1: really fix recovery looping when single good device fails. 2010-11-24 16:39:46 +11:00
raid1.h md/raid1: discard unused variable. 2010-10-29 16:40:33 +11:00
raid5.c md: use separate bio pool for each md device. 2010-10-28 17:36:15 +11:00
raid5.h md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support 2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
raid10.c md: protect against NULL reference when waiting to start a raid10. 2010-12-09 17:02:14 +11:00
raid10.h md: fix handling of array level takeover that re-arranges devices. 2010-06-24 13:33:24 +10:00