mulkieran
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4 years ago This is related to https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/pull/1779. The assumption in the prior code, that is corrected in the PR, is that failure to locate metadata on a group of devices indicates some kind of problem. But, because the metadata isn't written to all the devices among a large group, it may be the case that failure to get the metadata results from a subset of the devices having been picked up that just do not have metadata written.
If we group it together we can keep track of its invariants better. metadata management for a single device has already been grouped into the metadata module. What we're talking about here is metadata discovery when given a group of devices or metadata update on all the devices belonging to a pool.