[PATCH md 000 of 2] Introduction

[PATCH md 000 of 2] Introduction

[NeilBrown]

Following are two patches for md in 2.6.15-rc what should get into
2.6.15-final if possible.

The first refines a newly created interface (/sys/block/mdX/md/level).
I've decided that 'raid5' is better than 'RAID-5' after all.

The second removes some limits that shouldn't really be imposed in the kernel.

Thanks,
NeilBrown



 [PATCH md 001 of 2] Change case of raid level reported in sys/mdX/md/level
 [PATCH md 002 of 2] Remove inappropriate limits in md/bitmap configuration.

[PATCH md 001 of 2] Change case of raid level reported in sys/mdX/md/level

[NeilBrown]

I had thought that keeping the reported raid level clearly
different from the module name was a good idea, but I've changed
my mind.
'raid5' is better and probably less confusing than 'RAID-5'.


Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/md.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c
--- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~	2005-12-05 10:22:30.000000000 +1100
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c	2005-12-05 10:23:51.000000000 +1100
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@ level_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
 	if (p == NULL && mddev->raid_disks == 0)
 		return 0;
 	if (mddev->level >= 0)
-		return sprintf(page, "RAID-%d\n", mddev->level);
+		return sprintf(page, "raid%d\n", mddev->level);
 	else
 		return sprintf(page, "%s\n", p->name);
 }

[PATCH md 002 of 2] Remove inappropriate limits in md/bitmap configuration.

[NeilBrown]

The kernel should not be imposing these policy limits:
 The time between bitmap updates should certainly be allowed
 to be more than 15 seconds, and if someone wants a bitmap chunk size
 in excess of 4MB, the kernel isn't the place to stop them.


Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/bitmap.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff ./drivers/md/bitmap.c~current~ ./drivers/md/bitmap.c
--- ./drivers/md/bitmap.c~current~	2005-12-05 10:22:31.000000000 +1100
+++ ./drivers/md/bitmap.c	2005-12-05 10:28:09.000000000 +1100
@@ -485,12 +485,12 @@ static int bitmap_read_sb(struct bitmap 
 	else if (le32_to_cpu(sb->version) < BITMAP_MAJOR_LO ||
 		 le32_to_cpu(sb->version) > BITMAP_MAJOR_HI)
 		reason = "unrecognized superblock version";
-	else if (chunksize < 512 || chunksize > (1024 * 1024 * 4))
-		reason = "bitmap chunksize out of range (512B - 4MB)";
+	else if (chunksize < PAGE_SIZE)
+		reason = "bitmap chunksize too small";
 	else if ((1 << ffz(~chunksize)) != chunksize)
 		reason = "bitmap chunksize not a power of 2";
-	else if (daemon_sleep < 1 || daemon_sleep > 15)
-		reason = "daemon sleep period out of range (1-15s)";
+	else if (daemon_sleep < 1 || daemon_sleep > MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT / HZ)
+		reason = "daemon sleep period out of range";
 	else if (write_behind > COUNTER_MAX)
 		reason = "write-behind limit out of range (0 - 16383)";
 	if (reason) {