[PATCH] hostraid dmraid plugin should check for hostraid controller

[Darrick J. Wong]

Yay for PCI config space oddities.  You make a good point about recovery
too. Well, scratch this patch then.  As far as distinguishing the "new
unexpected raidset" vs the "known raidset" case, perhaps we could have a
dmraidtab that would list all the array names that we know about, and
some option that says "mount the raidsets listed in dmraidtab", sort of
like what mount -a does?

--D

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:00 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hi all (and Heinz in particular),
> > 
> > The attached patch against dmraid v1.0.0rc10 removes an unneeded
> > comment, supplements an existing one, and most importantly, and causes
> > is_asr to reject a disk if it can prove that the PCI controller attached
> > to the disk is not a categorized as a RAID controller (this
> > characteristic of the PCI class code is true for all the hostraid
> > adapters in my lab).
> 
> It's not true for all of the ones on my desk... some show themselves as
> IDE, some as SCSI, and some as SATA.
>
> > This part of the patch helps us to avoid the situation where you can
> > take a disk out of a HostRAID array, plug it in to a different system,
> > and have dmraid -ay go all haywire when it can't find the rest of the
> > disks.  It is my intent, however, that if is_asr will not reject a disk
> > if it can't make this positive identification; this patch therefore
> > should not affect Heinz's dm-based fakefakeraid testing rig. :)
> 
> It also screws up the recovery case -- moving a set of disks from one
> machine to another just to read them.
> 
> We need to be treating "discovery of new, unexpected raidsets"
> differently from "discovery and assembly of raidsets we know about", but
> really that's at a higher level than what the "dmraid" utility is doing.
> It just scans; it doesn't care why.  For this sort of elimination, you
> care about why.
> 
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