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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300
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@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ ii) Status
underlying device. When this is enabled when loading the table,
it can get disabled if the underlying device doesn't support it.
- ro|rw
+ ro|rw|out_of_data_space
If the pool encounters certain types of device failures it will
drop into a read-only metadata mode in which no changes to
the pool metadata (like allocating new blocks) are permitted.
@@ -314,6 +314,13 @@ ii) Status
module parameter can be used to change this timeout -- it
defaults to 60 seconds but may be disabled using a value of 0.
+ needs_check
+ A metadata operation has failed, resulting in the needs_check
+ flag being set in the metadata's superblock. The metadata
+ device must be deactivated and checked/repaired before the
+ thin-pool can be made fully operational again. '-' indicates
+ needs_check is not set.
+
iii) Messages
create_thin <dev id>