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- Update mdadm to latest upstream state upto commit 582945c2d3bb. (jsc#PED-7542) 1) The testing changes are not included here. 2) Code clean up, and more helper routines added for Manage.c, Monitor.c, mdadm.c, ReadMe.c, super-intel.c, super0.c, super1.c, Create.c, Incremental.c and so on. 3) Man page update for mdadm.8.in. 4) Several memory leak and double free fixes. 5) Check /etc/initrd-release for whether systemd running on an initrd. - Manage: Block unsafe member failing 0062-Manage-Block-unsafe-member-failing.patch - Mdmonitor: Split alert() into separate functions 0063-Mdmonitor-Split-alert-into-separate-functions.patch - Monitor: block if monitor modes are combined. 0064-Monitor-block-if-monitor-modes-are-combined.patch - Update mdadm Monitor manual. 0065-Update-mdadm-Monitor-manual.patch - mdadm: create ident_init() 0066-mdadm-create-ident_init.patch - mdadm: Add option validation for --update-subarray 0067-mdadm-Add-option-validation-for-update-subarray.patch - Fix --update-subarray on active volume 0068-Fix-update-subarray-on-active-volume.patch - Add code specific update options to enum. 0069-Add-code-specific-update-options-to-enum.patch - super-ddf: Remove update_super_ddf. 0070-super-ddf-Remove-update_super_ddf.patch - super0: refactor the code for enum 0071-super0-refactor-the-code-for-enum.patch - super1: refactor the code for enum OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1137473 OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/mdadm?expand=0&rev=231
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From 33831d845a48b9a2ac4d1e954c88a3dd8cb15753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 13:41:35 -0700
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Subject: [PATCH] manpage: Add --write-zeroes option to manpage
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Document the new --write-zeroes option in the manpage.
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Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
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Acked-by: Kinga Tanska <kinga.tanska@linux.intel.com>
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Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
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Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
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Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
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---
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mdadm.8.in | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
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1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
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index 64f71ed..6f0f6c1 100644
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--- a/mdadm.8.in
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+++ b/mdadm.8.in
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@@ -837,6 +837,22 @@ array is resynced at creation. From Linux version 3.0,
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.B \-\-assume\-clean
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can be used with that command to avoid the automatic resync.
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+.TP
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+.BR \-\-write-zeroes
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+When creating an array, send write zeroes requests to all the block
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+devices. This should zero the data area on all disks such that the
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+initial sync is not necessary and, if successfull, will behave
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+as if
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+.B \-\-assume\-clean
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+was specified.
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+.IP
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+This is intended for use with devices that have hardware offload for
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+zeroing, but despite this zeroing can still take several minutes for
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+large disks. Thus a message is printed before and after zeroing and
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+each disk is zeroed in parallel with the others.
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+.IP
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+This is only meaningful with --create.
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+
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.TP
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.BR \-\-backup\-file=
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This is needed when
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@@ -1370,7 +1386,7 @@ and
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.B layout\-alternate
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options are for RAID0 arrays with non-uniform devices size that were in
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use before Linux 5.4. If the array was being used with Linux 3.13 or
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-earlier, then to assemble the array on a new kernel,
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+earlier, then to assemble the array on a new kernel,
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.B \-\-update=layout\-original
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must be given. If the array was created and used with a kernel from Linux 3.14 to
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Linux 5.3, then
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--
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2.35.3
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