Two major components to this update.
1/ the clustered-raid1 support from SUSE is nearly
complete. There are a few outstanding issues being
worked on. Maybe half a dozen patches will bring
this to a usable state.
2/ The first stage of journalled-raid5 support from
Facebook makes an appearance. With a journal
device configured (typically NVRAM or SSD), the
"RAID5 write hole" should be closed - a crash
during degraded operations cannot result in data
corruption.
The next stage will be to use the journal as a
write-behind cache so that latency can be reduced
and in some cases throughput increased by
performing more full-stripe writes.
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Merge tag 'md/4.4' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
"Two major components to this update.
1) The clustered-raid1 support from SUSE is nearly complete. There
are a few outstanding issues being worked on. Maybe half a dozen
patches will bring this to a usable state.
2) The first stage of journalled-raid5 support from Facebook makes an
appearance. With a journal device configured (typically NVRAM or
SSD), the "RAID5 write hole" should be closed - a crash during
degraded operations cannot result in data corruption.
The next stage will be to use the journal as a write-behind cache
so that latency can be reduced and in some cases throughput
increased by performing more full-stripe writes.
* tag 'md/4.4' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (66 commits)
MD: when RAID journal is missing/faulty, block RESTART_ARRAY_RW
MD: set journal disk ->raid_disk
MD: kick out journal disk if it's not fresh
raid5-cache: start raid5 readonly if journal is missing
MD: add new bit to indicate raid array with journal
raid5-cache: IO error handling
raid5: journal disk can't be removed
raid5-cache: add trim support for log
MD: fix info output for journal disk
raid5-cache: use bio chaining
raid5-cache: small log->seq cleanup
raid5-cache: new helper: r5_reserve_log_entry
raid5-cache: inline r5l_alloc_io_unit into r5l_new_meta
raid5-cache: take rdev->data_offset into account early on
raid5-cache: refactor bio allocation
raid5-cache: clean up r5l_get_meta
raid5-cache: simplify state machine when caches flushes are not needed
raid5-cache: factor out a helper to run all stripes for an I/O unit
raid5-cache: rename flushed_ios to finished_ios
raid5-cache: free I/O units earlier
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