From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Czarnowska, Anna" <anna.czarnowska@intel.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
"Neubauer, Wojciech" <Wojciech.Neubauer@intel.com>,
"Ciechanowski, Ed" <ed.ciechanowski@intel.com>,
"Labun, Marcin" <Marcin.Labun@intel.com>,
"Hawrylewicz Czarnowski,
Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17] Monitor: avoid skipping checks on external arays
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:17:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD42E0D.7020700@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A9DE54D0CD747C4CB06DCE5B6FA2246F010BC6D48D@irsmsx504.ger.corp.intel.com>
On 11/05/2010 07:56 AM, Czarnowska, Anna wrote:
> Metadata_version is needed for:
> Deciding if metadata type is container-based - more than just the utime check depends on it
> Getting parent container number from subarrays - for linking subarrays with containers
> Obtaining superswitch - to avoid calling guess_super when we already know the kind of metadata
>
> Introducing utime_valid flag would just duplicate part of information included in metadata_version.
> Regards
> Anna
Ah, ok reading this patch in isolation does not convey these future
usages. We could put this text in the changelog.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-29 14:23 [PATCH 09/17] Monitor: avoid skipping checks on external arays Czarnowska, Anna
2010-11-05 5:47 ` Dan Williams
2010-11-05 14:56 ` Czarnowska, Anna
2010-11-05 16:17 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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