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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
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[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>
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@@ -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