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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-10-03 01:15:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-03 08:04:18 -0700 |
| commit | d33a56d3639eba077489c937943a32ef6237b1b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 67eb0e6369a7a3ee39ba88ac65a91812721ae22d /Documentation/md.txt | |
| parent | 61df9d91e986f1314af482e7ea5f2312a6cd0d14 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d33a56d3639eba077489c937943a32ef6237b1b8.tar.gz lwn-d33a56d3639eba077489c937943a32ef6237b1b8.zip | |
[PATCH] md: fix duplicity of levels in md.txt
md.txt has two sections describing the 'level' sysfs attribute, and some of
the text is out-of-date. So make just one section, and make it right.
Cc: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/md.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/md.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index 084ecf4eb2f8..9ae9e4078985 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -154,11 +154,12 @@ contains further md-specific information about the device. All md devices contain: level - a text file indicating the 'raid level'. This may be a standard - numerical level prefixed by "RAID-" - e.g. "RAID-5", or some - other name such as "linear" or "multipath". + a text file indicating the 'raid level'. e.g. raid0, raid1, + raid5, linear, multipath, faulty. If no raid level has been set yet (array is still being - assembled), this file will be empty. + assembled), the value will reflect whatever has been written + to it, which may be a name like the above, or may be a number + such as '0', '5', etc. raid_disks a text file with a simple number indicating the number of devices @@ -192,14 +193,6 @@ 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. - layout The "layout" for the array for the particular level. This is simply a number that is interpretted differently by different |