Chris Mason posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:51:23 +0000 as excerpted: > It'll pick the latest generation number and use that one as the one true > source. For the others you'll get crc errors which make it fall back to > the latest one. If the two have exactly the same generation number, > we'll have a hard time picking the best one. > > Ilya has a series of changes from this year's GSOC that we need to clean > up and integrate. It detects offline devices and brings them up to date > automatically. > > He targeted the pull-one-drive use case explicitly. Thanks for the explanation and bits to look forward to. I'll be looking forward to seeing that GSOC stuff then, as having dropouts and re-adds auto-handled would be a sweet feature to add to the raid featureset, improving things from a sysadmin's prepared-to-deal-with- recovery perspective quite a bit. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
