When an md array is started, the superblock will be written, and resync may
commense. This is not good if you want to be completely read-only as, for
example, when preparing to resume from a suspend-to-disk image.
So introduce a module parameter "start_ro" which can be set
to '1' at boot, at module load, or via
/sys/module/md_mod/parameters/start_ro
When this is set, new arrays get an 'auto-ro' mode, which disables all
internal io (superblock updates, resync, recovery) and is automatically
switched to 'rw' when the first write request arrives.
The array can be set to true 'ro' mode using 'mdadm -r' before the first
write request, or resync can be started without a write using 'mdadm -w'.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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