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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2006-01-06 11:20:50 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-06 19:34:08 +0300
commit8bb93aaca2062cd54cc2c58c76ee8409cae209a7 (patch)
tree12efef0262795f4d4462c8ac8e0fd6e2117ee81a
parenta35b0d695d44410eb1734c9abb632725a3138628 (diff)
downloadlinux-8bb93aaca2062cd54cc2c58c76ee8409cae209a7.tar.xz
[PATCH] md: expose md metadata format in sysfs
Allow it to be set to a particular version, or 'none'. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/md.txt6
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c49
2 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index 0a2e10a4040d..c5512afd5917 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ All md devices contain:
the array if the personality supports it (raid1, raid5, raid6),
and if the component drives are large enough.
+ metadata_version
+ This indicates the format that is being used to record metadata
+ about the array. It can be 0.90 (traditional format), 1.0, 1.1,
+ 1.2 (newer format in varying locations) or "none" indicating that
+ the kernel isn't managing metadata at all.
+
As component devices are added to an md array, they appear in the 'md'
directory as new directories named
dev-XXX
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index d568ab4a487f..ecc0166ba779 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1857,6 +1857,54 @@ size_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
static struct md_sysfs_entry md_size =
__ATTR(component_size, 0644, size_show, size_store);
+
+/* Metdata version.
+ * This is either 'none' for arrays with externally managed metadata,
+ * or N.M for internally known formats
+ */
+static ssize_t
+metadata_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+ if (mddev->persistent)
+ return sprintf(page, "%d.%d\n",
+ mddev->major_version, mddev->minor_version);
+ else
+ return sprintf(page, "none\n");
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+metadata_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+ int major, minor;
+ char *e;
+ if (!list_empty(&mddev->disks))
+ return -EBUSY;
+
+ if (cmd_match(buf, "none")) {
+ mddev->persistent = 0;
+ mddev->major_version = 0;
+ mddev->minor_version = 90;
+ return len;
+ }
+ major = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10);
+ if (e==buf || *e != '.')
+ return -EINVAL;
+ buf = e+1;
+ minor = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10);
+ if (e==buf || *e != '\n')
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (major >= sizeof(super_types)/sizeof(super_types[0]) ||
+ super_types[major].name == NULL)
+ return -ENOENT;
+ mddev->major_version = major;
+ mddev->minor_version = minor;
+ mddev->persistent = 1;
+ return len;
+}
+
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_metadata =
+__ATTR(metadata_version, 0644, metadata_show, metadata_store);
+
static ssize_t
action_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
{
@@ -1926,6 +1974,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
&md_raid_disks.attr,
&md_chunk_size.attr,
&md_size.attr,
+ &md_metadata.attr,
NULL,
};