Re: [PATCH md 000 of 2] Introduction

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday October 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'd like to review the sysfs a bit more before it goes to Linus, but > > > the rest can go anytime. > > > > umm, what does "the sysfs" refer to? >

Re: [PATCH md 000 of 2] Introduction

2005-10-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday October 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to review the sysfs a bit more before it goes to Linus, but > > the rest can go anytime. > > umm, what does "the sysfs" refer to? Sorry.. "the sysfs related patches". Those marked as 'TH

Re: [PATCH md 000 of 2] Introduction

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew Morton
NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to review the sysfs a bit more before it goes to Linus, but > the rest can go anytime. umm, what does "the sysfs" refer to? Current md patches in -mm: md-better-handling-of-readerrors-with-raid5.patch md-initial-sysfs-support-for-md.patch md

[PATCH md 000 of 2] Introduction

2005-10-30 Thread NeilBrown
Two patches for md in 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 (First one depends on -mm stuff, second should apply to most recent 2.6 kernels). I'd like to review the sysfs a bit more before it goes to Linus, but the rest can go anytime. Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH md 001 of 2] Remove attempt to use dynamic names in sysfs

[PATCH md 002 of 2] Allow md arrays to be started read-only (module parameter).

2005-10-30 Thread NeilBrown
When an md array is started, the superblock will be written, and resync may commense. This is not good if you want to be completely read-only as, for example, when preparing to resume from a suspend-to-disk image. So introduce a module parameter "start_ro" which can be set to '1' at boot, at mod

[PATCH md 001 of 2] Remove attempt to use dynamic names in sysfs for component devices on an MD array.

2005-10-30 Thread NeilBrown
With version-0.90 superblock, component devices on an md device to not have any stable name related to the array -(version-1 assigns a fixed index when a device is added to an array, and this remains despit any hot-swap). The intial code for making these devices appear in sysfs used dynamic names