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2009-12-30md: allow a resync that is waiting for other resync to complete, to be aborted.NeilBrown
If two arrays share a device, then they will not both resync at the same time. One will wait for the other to complete. While waiting, the MD_RECOVERY_INTR flag is not checked so a device failure, which would make the resync pointless, does not cause the resync to abort, so the failed device cannot be removed (as it cannot be remove while a resync is happening). So add a test for MD_RECOVERY_INTR. Reported-by: Brett Russ <bruss@netezza.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-30md: remove unnecessary code from do_md_runNeilBrown
Since commit dfc7064500061677720fa26352963c772d3ebe6b, ->hot_remove_disks has not removed non-failed devices from an array until recovery is no longer possible. So the code in do_md_run to get around the fact that md_check_recovery (which calls ->hot_remove_disks) would remove partially-in-sync devices is no longer needed. So remove it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-30md: make recovery started by do_md_run() visible via sync_actionDan Williams
By default md_do_sync() will perform recovery if no other actions are specified. However, action_show() relies on MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER to be set otherwise it returns 'idle'. So, add a missing set MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER when starting recovery. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-30md: fix small irregularity with start_ro module parameterNeilBrown
The start_ro modules parameter can be used to force arrays to be started in 'auto-readonly' in which they are read-only until the first write. This ensures that no resync/recovery happens until something else writes to the device. This is important for resume-from-disk off an md array. However if an array is started 'readonly' (by writing 'readonly' to the 'array_state' sysfs attribute) we want it to be really 'readonly', not 'auto-readonly'. So strengthen the condition to only set auto-readonly if the array is not already read-only. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-30md: Fix unfortunate interaction with evmsNeilBrown
evms configures md arrays by: open device send ioctl close device for each different ioctl needed. Since 2.6.29, the device can disappear after the 'close' unless a significant configuration has happened to the device. The change made by "SET_ARRAY_INFO" can too minor to stop the device from disappearing, but important enough that losing the change is bad. So: make sure SET_ARRAY_INFO sets mddev->ctime, and keep the device active as long as ctime is non-zero (it gets zeroed with lots of other things when the array is stopped). This is suitable for -stable kernels since 2.6.29. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-12-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (80 commits) dm snapshot: use merge origin if snapshot invalid dm snapshot: report merge failure in status dm snapshot: merge consecutive chunks together dm snapshot: trigger exceptions in remaining snapshots during merge dm snapshot: delay merging a chunk until writes to it complete dm snapshot: queue writes to chunks being merged dm snapshot: add merging dm snapshot: permit only one merge at once dm snapshot: support barriers in snapshot merge target dm snapshot: avoid allocating exceptions in merge dm snapshot: rework writing to origin dm snapshot: add merge target dm exception store: add merge specific methods dm snapshot: create function for chunk_is_tracked wait dm snapshot: make bio optional in __origin_write dm mpath: reject messages when device is suspended dm: export suspended state to targets dm: rename dm_suspended to dm_suspended_md dm: swap target postsuspend call and setting suspended flag dm crypt: add plain64 iv ...
2009-12-15drivers/md/md.c: use %pU to print UUIDsJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib functionAndré Goddard Rosa
Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading spaces from strings all over the tree. It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide: text data bss dec hex filename 64688 584 592 65864 10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE) 64641 584 592 65817 10119 (TOTALS-AFTER) Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words, "a char equals zero is never a space". Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below, and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files: drivers/leds/led-class.c drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c drivers/video/output.c @@ expression str; @@ ( // ignore skip_spaces cases while (*str && isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) } | - *str && isspace(*str) ) Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-14md: add 'recovery_start' per-device sysfs attributeDan Williams
Enable external metadata arrays to manage rebuild checkpointing via a md/dev-XXX/recovery_start attribute which reflects rdev->recovery_offset Also update resync_start_store to allow 'none' to be written, for consistency. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: rcu_read_lock() walk of mddev->disks in md_do_sync()Dan Williams
Other walks of this list are either under rcu_read_lock() or the list mutation lock (mddev_lock()). This protects against the improbable case of a disk being removed from the array at the start of md_do_sync(). Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-12-14md: integrate spares into array at earliest opportunity.NeilBrown
As v1.x metadata can record that a member of the array is not completely recovered, it make sense to record that a spare has become a regular member of the array at the earliest opportunity. So remove the tests on "recovery_offset > 0" in super_1_sync as they really aren't needed, and schedule a metadata update immediately after adding spares to a degraded array. This means that if a crash happens immediately after a recovery starts, the new device will be included in the array and recovery will continue from wherever it was up to. Previously this didn't happen unless recovery was at least 1/16 of the way through. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: move compat_ioctl handling into md.cArnd Bergmann
The RAID ioctls are only implemented in md.c, so the handling for them should also be moved there from fs/compat_ioctl.c. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: revise Kconfig help for MD_MULTIPATHNeilBrown
Make it clear in the config message that MD_MULTIPATH is not under active development. Cc: Oren Held <orenhe@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION for all md related modules.NeilBrown
Suggested by Oren Held <orenhe@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14raid: improve MD/raid10 handling of correctable read errors.Robert Becker
We've noticed severe lasting performance degradation of our raid arrays when we have drives that yield large amounts of media errors. The raid10 module will queue each failed read for retry, and also will attempt call fix_read_error() to perform the read recovery. Read recovery is performed while the array is frozen, so repeated recovery attempts can degrade the performance of the array for extended periods of time. With this patch I propose adding a per md device max number of corrected read attempts. Each rdev will maintain a count of read correction attempts in the rdev->read_errors field (not used currently for raid10). When we enter fix_read_error() we'll check to see when the last read error occurred, and divide the read error count by 2 for every hour since the last read error. If at that point our read error count exceeds the read error threshold, we'll fail the raid device. In addition in this patch I add sysfs nodes (get/set) for the per md max_read_errors attribute, the rdev->read_errors attribute, and added some printk's to indicate when fix_read_error fails to repair an rdev. For testing I used debugfs->fail_make_request to inject IO errors to the rdev while doing IO to the raid array. Signed-off-by: Robert Becker <Rob.Becker@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md/raid10: print more useful messages on device failure.Robert Becker
When we get a read error on a device in a RAID10, and attempting to repair the error fails, print more useful messages about why it failed. Signed-off-by: Robert Becker <Rob.Becker@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md/bitmap: update dirty flag when bitmap bits are explicitly set.NeilBrown
There is a sysfs file which allows bits in the write-intent bitmap to be explicit set - indicating that the block is thought to be 'dirty'. When this happens we should really set recovery_cp backwards to include the block to reflect this dirtiness. In particular, a 'resync' process will refuse to start if recovery_cp is beyond the end of the array, so this is needed to allow a resync to be triggered. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: Support write-intent bitmaps with externally managed metadata.NeilBrown
In this case, the metadata needs to not be in the same sector as the bitmap. md will not read/write any bitmap metadata. Config must be done via sysfs and when a recovery makes the array non-degraded again, writing 'true' to 'bitmap/can_clear' will allow bits in the bitmap to be cleared again. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md/bitmap: move setting of daemon_lastrun out of bitmap_read_sbNeilBrown
Setting daemon_lastrun really has nothing to do with reading the bitmap superblock, it just happens to be needed at the same time. bitmap_read_sb is about to become options, so move that code out to after the call to bitmap_read_sb. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: support updating bitmap parameters via sysfs.NeilBrown
A new attribute directory 'bitmap' in 'md' is created which contains files for configuring the bitmap. 'location' identifies where the bitmap is, either 'none', or 'file' or 'sector offset from metadata'. Writing 'location' can create or remove a bitmap. Adding a 'file' bitmap this way is not yet supported. 'chunksize' and 'time_base' must be set before 'location' can be set. 'chunksize' can be set before creating a bitmap, but is currently always over-ridden by the bitmap superblock. 'time_base' and 'backlog' can be updated at any time. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
2009-12-14md: factor out parsing of fixed-point numbersNeilBrown
safe_delay_store can parse fixed point numbers (for fractions of a second). We will want to do that for another sysfs file soon, so factor out the code. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: support bitmap offset appropriate for external-metadata arrays.NeilBrown
For md arrays were metadata is managed externally, the kernel does not know about a superblock so the superblock offset is 0. If we want to have a write-intent-bitmap near the end of the devices of such an array, we should support sector_t sized offset. We need offset be possibly negative for when the bitmap is before the metadata, so use loff_t instead. Also add sanity check that bitmap does not overlap with data. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: remove needless setting of thread->timeout in raid10_quiesceNeilBrown
As bitmap_create and bitmap_destroy already set thread->timeout as appropriate, there is no need to do it in raid10_quiesce. There is a possible need to wake the thread after the timeout has been set low, but it is better to do that where the timeout is actually set low, in bitmap_create. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: change daemon_sleep to be in 'jiffies' rather than 'seconds'.NeilBrown
This removes a lot of multiplications by HZ. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: move offset, daemon_sleep and chunksize out of bitmap structureNeilBrown
... and into bitmap_info. These are all configuration parameters that need to be set before the bitmap is created. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: collect bitmap-specific fields into one structure.NeilBrown
In preparation for making bitmap fields configurable via sysfs, start tidying up by making a single structure to contain the configuration fields. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md/raid1: add takeover support for raid5->raid1NeilBrown
A 2-device raid5 array can now be converted to raid1. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: add honouring of suspend_{lo,hi} to raid1.NeilBrown
This will allow us to stop writeout to portions of the array while they are resynced by someone else - e.g. another node in a cluster. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md/raid5: don't complete make_request on barrier until writes are scheduledNeilBrown
The post-barrier-flush is sent by md as soon as make_request on the barrier write completes. For raid5, the data might not be in the per-device queues yet. So for barrier requests, wait for any pre-reading to be done so that the request will be in the per-device queues. We use the 'preread_active' count to check that nothing is still in the preread phase, and delay the decrement of this count until after write requests have been submitted to the underlying devices. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: support barrier requests on all personalities.NeilBrown
Previously barriers were only supported on RAID1. This is because other levels requires synchronisation across all devices and so needed a different approach. Here is that approach. When a barrier arrives, we send a zero-length barrier to every active device. When that completes - and if the original request was not empty - we submit the barrier request itself (with the barrier flag cleared) and then submit a fresh load of zero length barriers. The barrier request itself is asynchronous, but any subsequent request will block until the barrier completes. The reason for clearing the barrier flag is that a barrier request is allowed to fail. If we pass a non-empty barrier through a striping raid level it is conceivable that part of it could succeed and part could fail. That would be way too hard to deal with. So if the first run of zero length barriers succeed, we assume all is sufficiently well that we send the request and ignore errors in the second run of barriers. RAID5 needs extra care as write requests may not have been submitted to the underlying devices yet. So we flush the stripe cache before proceeding with the barrier. Note that the second set of zero-length barriers are submitted immediately after the original request is submitted. Thus when a personality finds mddev->barrier to be set during make_request, it should not return from make_request until the corresponding per-device request(s) have been queued. That will be done in later patches. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
2009-12-14md: don't reset curr_resync_completed after an interrupted resyncNeilBrown
If a resync/recovery/check/repair is interrupted for some reason, it can be useful to know exactly where it got up to. So in that case, do not clear curr_resync_completed. Initialise it when starting a resync/recovery/... instead. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: adjust resync_min usefully when resync aborts.NeilBrown
When a 'check' or 'repair' finished we should clear resync_min so that a future check/repair will cover the whole array (by default). However if it is interrupted, we should update resync_min to where we got up to, so that when the check/repair continues it just does the remainder of the array. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: remove sparse warning:symbol XXX was not declared.NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md/raid5: remove some sparse warnings.NeilBrown
qd_idx is previously declared and given exactly the same value! Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md/bitmap: protect against bitmap removal while being updated.NeilBrown
A write intent bitmap can be removed from an array while the array is active. When this happens, all IO is suspended and flushed before the bitmap is removed. However it is possible that bitmap_daemon_work is still running to clear old bits from the bitmap. If it is, it can dereference the bitmap after it has been freed. So introduce a new mutex to protect bitmap_daemon_work and get it before destroying a bitmap. This is suitable for any current -stable kernel. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-12-10dm snapshot: use merge origin if snapshot invalidMikulas Patocka
If the snapshot we are merging became invalid (e.g. it ran out of space) redirect all I/O directly to the origin device. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: report merge failure in statusMike Snitzer
Set 'merge_failed' flag if a snapshot fails to merge. Update snapshot_status() to report "Merge failed" if 'merge_failed' is set. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: merge consecutive chunks togetherMike Snitzer
s->store->type->prepare_merge returns the number of chunks that can be copied linearly working backwards from the returned chunk number. For example, if it returns 3 chunks with old_chunk == 10 and new_chunk == 20, then chunk 20 can be copied to 10, chunk 19 to 9 and 18 to 8. Until now kcopyd only copied one chunk at a time. This patch now copies the full set at once. Consequently, snapshot_merge_process() needs to delay the merging of all chunks if any have writes in progress, not just the first chunk in the region that is to be merged. snapshot-merge's performance is now comparable to the original snapshot-origin target. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: trigger exceptions in remaining snapshots during mergeMikulas Patocka
When there is one merging snapshot and other non-merging snapshots, snapshot_merge_process() must make exceptions in the non-merging snapshots. Use a sequence count to resolve the race between I/O to chunks that are about to be merged. The count increases each time an exception reallocation finishes. Use wait_event() to wait until the count changes. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: delay merging a chunk until writes to it completeMikulas Patocka
Track writes to chunks that are currently being merged and delay merging a chunk until all writes to that chunk finish. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: queue writes to chunks being mergedMikulas Patocka
While a set of chunks is being merged, any overlapping writes need to be queued. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: add mergingMikulas Patocka
Merging is started when origin is resumed and it is stopped when origin is suspended or when the merging snapshot is destroyed or errors are detected. Merging is not yet interlocked with writes: this will be handled in subsequent patches. The code relies on callbacks from a private kcopyd thread. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: permit only one merge at onceMikulas Patocka
Merging more than one snapshot is not supported, so prevent this happening. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: support barriers in snapshot merge targetMike Snitzer
Sets num_flush_requests=2 to support flushing both the origin and cow devices used by the snapshot-merge target. Also, snapshot_ctr() now gets the origin device using FMODE_WRITE if the target is snapshot-merge (which writes to the origin device). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: avoid allocating exceptions in mergeMikulas Patocka
The snapshot-merge target should not allocate new exceptions because the intent is to merge all of its exceptions as quickly and safely as possible. This patch introduces the snapshot-merge mapping function and updates __origin_write() so that it doesn't allocate exceptions on any snapshots that are being merged. If a write request to a merging snapshot device is to be dispatched directly to the origin (because the chunk is not remapped or was already merged), snapshot_merge_map() must make exceptions in other snapshots so calls do_origin(). Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: rework writing to originMikulas Patocka
To track the completion of exceptions relating to the same location on the device, the current code selects one exception as primary_pe, links the other exceptions to it and uses reference counting to wait until all the reallocations are complete. It is considered too complicated to extend this code to handle the new snapshot-merge target, where sets of non-overlapping chunks would also need to become linked. Instead, a simpler (but less efficient) approach is taken. Bios are linked to one exception. When it completes, bios are simply retried, and if other related exceptions are still outstanding, they'll get queued again to wait for another one. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: add merge targetMikulas Patocka
The snapshot-merge target allows a snapshot to be merged back into the snapshot's origin device. One anticipated use of snapshot merging is the rollback of filesystems to back out problematic system upgrades. This patch adds snapshot-merge target management to both dm_snapshot_init() and dm_snapshot_exit(). As an initial place-holder, snapshot-merge is identical to the snapshot target. Documentation is provided. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm exception store: add merge specific methodsMikulas Patocka
Add functions that decide how many consecutive chunks of snapshot to merge back into the origin next and to update the metadata afterwards. prepare_merge provides a pointer to the most recent still-to-be-merged chunk and returns how many previous ones are consecutive and can be processed together. commit_merge removes the nr_merged most-recent chunks permanently from the exception store. The number must not exceed that returned by prepare_merge. Introduce NUM_SNAPSHOT_HDR_CHUNKS to show where the snapshot header chunk is accounted for. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: create function for chunk_is_tracked waitMike Snitzer
Move the __chunk_is_tracked() loop into a separate function as we will also need to call it from the write path in the rare case of conflicting writes to the same chunk. Originally introduced in commit a8d41b59f3f5a7ac19452ef442a7fc1b5fa17366 ("dm snapshot: fix race during exception creation"). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm snapshot: make bio optional in __origin_writeMikulas Patocka
To support the merging of snapshots back into their origin we need to trigger exceptions in other snapshots not being merged without any incoming bio on the origin device. The bio parameter to __origin_write() becomes optional and the sector needs supplying separately. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>