[PATCH] md: teach raid5 the difference between 'check' and 'repair'.
With this, raid5 can be asked to check parity without repairing it. It also
keeps a count of the number of incorrect parity blocks found (mismatches) and
reports them through sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 121fbaa..ce15455 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -1292,6 +1292,11 @@
!memcmp(pagea, pagea+4, STRIPE_SIZE-4)) {
/* parity is correct (on disc, not in buffer any more) */
set_bit(STRIPE_INSYNC, &sh->state);
+ } else {
+ conf->mddev->resync_mismatches += STRIPE_SECTORS;
+ if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_CHECK, &conf->mddev->recovery))
+ /* don't try to repair!! */
+ set_bit(STRIPE_INSYNC, &sh->state);
}
}
if (!test_bit(STRIPE_INSYNC, &sh->state)) {