Misono, Tomohiro posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:45:58 +0900 as excerpted: > On 2017/10/16 18:22, Nikolay Borisov wrote: >> >> >> On 16.10.2017 07:56, Misono, Tomohiro wrote: >>> >>> 1. Add explanation of 'missing' for 'device remove'. This is only >>> written in wikipage currently. >>> +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-device.asciidoc >> Also, what happens if there are 2 or more devices missing, will those >> be deleted as well or just the first device? If all missing devices are >> handled then this needs to be reflected in the documentation. > How about adding a note in the end?: > === > If filesystem is mounted in degraded mode (-o degraded), special term > "missing" can be used for <device>. In that case, the first device that > is described by the filesystem metadata, but not present at the mount > time will be removed. > > NOTE: In most cases, there is only one missing device in degraded mode, > otherwise mount fails. If there are two or more devices missing (e.g. > possible in RAID 6), you need specify "missing" as many times as the > number of missing devices to remove all of them. > === LGTM. =:^) -- 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
