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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2006-01-06 11:20:51 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-06 19:34:09 +0300
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downloadlinux-d9d166c2a9d5d01af34396793950aa695883eed4.tar.xz
[PATCH] md: allow array level to be set textually via sysfs
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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@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ All md devices contain:
1.2 (newer format in varying locations) or "none" indicating that
the kernel isn't managing metadata at all.
+ level
+ The raid 'level' for this array. The name will often (but not
+ always) be the same as the name of the module that implements the
+ level. To be auto-loaded the module must have an alias
+ md-$LEVEL e.g. md-raid5
+ This can be written only while the array is being assembled, not
+ after it is started.
+
As component devices are added to an md array, they appear in the 'md'
directory as new directories named
dev-XXX