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| author | Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> | 2025-01-02 19:28:41 +0800 |
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| committer | Song Liu <song@kernel.org> | 2025-01-13 07:36:29 -0800 |
| commit | 127186cfb184eaccdfe948e6da66940cfa03efc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 59e8bab857c62243013dce937c52a953cac90dda /drivers/md/md-autodetect.c | |
| parent | e494e451611a3de6ae95f99e8339210c157d70fb (diff) | |
| download | lwn-127186cfb184eaccdfe948e6da66940cfa03efc5.tar.gz lwn-127186cfb184eaccdfe948e6da66940cfa03efc5.zip | |
md: reintroduce md-linear
THe md-linear is removed by commit 849d18e27be9 ("md: Remove deprecated
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR") because it has been marked as deprecated for a long
time.
However, md-linear is used widely for underlying disks with different size,
sadly we didn't know this until now, and it's true useful to create
partitions and assemble multiple raid and then append one to the other.
People have to use dm-linear in this case now, however, they will prefer
to minimize the number of involved modules.
Fixes: 849d18e27be9 ("md: Remove deprecated CONFIG_MD_LINEAR")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250102112841.1227111-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md-autodetect.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/md-autodetect.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c index b2a00f213c2c..4b80165afd23 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c +++ b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ static int md_setup_ents __initdata; * instead of just one. -- KTK * 18May2000: Added support for persistent-superblock arrays: * md=n,0,factor,fault,device-list uses RAID0 for device n + * md=n,-1,factor,fault,device-list uses LINEAR for device n * md=n,device-list reads a RAID superblock from the devices * elements in device-list are read by name_to_kdev_t so can be * a hex number or something like /dev/hda1 /dev/sdb @@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ static int __init md_setup(char *str) md_setup_ents++; switch (get_option(&str, &level)) { /* RAID level */ case 2: /* could be 0 or -1.. */ - if (level == 0) { + if (level == 0 || level == LEVEL_LINEAR) { if (get_option(&str, &factor) != 2 || /* Chunk Size */ get_option(&str, &fault) != 2) { printk(KERN_WARNING "md: Too few arguments supplied to md=.\n"); @@ -95,7 +96,10 @@ static int __init md_setup(char *str) } md_setup_args[ent].level = level; md_setup_args[ent].chunk = 1 << (factor+12); - pername = "raid0"; + if (level == LEVEL_LINEAR) + pername = "linear"; + else + pername = "raid0"; break; } fallthrough; |