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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-07-21 07:57:44 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-07-21 07:57:44 +0200
commitf6a74a5e15df32f289837feeabf8c84829312b06 (patch)
treec8d16b12ef76c7a9e21693d1bad31f59f78436cd /Documentation/device-mapper
parent60cd37eb100c4880b28078a47f3062fac7572095 (diff)
parent9d634c410b07be7bf637ea03362d3ff132088fe3 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to refresh the branch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/device-mapper')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt9
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
index 82960cffbad3..785eab87aa71 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
@@ -258,6 +258,12 @@ cache metadata mode : ro if read-only, rw if read-write
no further I/O will be permitted and the status will just
contain the string 'Fail'. The userspace recovery tools
should then be used.
+needs_check : 'needs_check' if set, '-' if not set
+ A metadata operation has failed, resulting in the needs_check
+ flag being set in the metadata's superblock. The metadata
+ device must be deactivated and checked/repaired before the
+ cache can be made fully operational again. '-' indicates
+ needs_check is not set.
Messages
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
index 4f67578b2954..1699a55b7b70 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ ii) Status
underlying device. When this is enabled when loading the table,
it can get disabled if the underlying device doesn't support it.
- ro|rw
+ ro|rw|out_of_data_space
If the pool encounters certain types of device failures it will
drop into a read-only metadata mode in which no changes to
the pool metadata (like allocating new blocks) are permitted.
@@ -314,6 +314,13 @@ ii) Status
module parameter can be used to change this timeout -- it
defaults to 60 seconds but may be disabled using a value of 0.
+ needs_check
+ A metadata operation has failed, resulting in the needs_check
+ flag being set in the metadata's superblock. The metadata
+ device must be deactivated and checked/repaired before the
+ thin-pool can be made fully operational again. '-' indicates
+ needs_check is not set.
+
iii) Messages
create_thin <dev id>