From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix duplicity of levels in md.txt Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:52:52 +1000 Message-ID: <1060929025252.15187@suse.de> References: <20060929125047.14064.patches@notabene> Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Kujau List-Id: linux-raid.ids md.txt has two sections describing the 'level' sysfs attribute, and some of the text is out-of-date.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 Signed-off-by: Neil Brown ### Diffstat output ./Documentation/md.txt | 17 +++++------------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff .prev/Documentation/md.txt ./Documentation/md.txt --- .prev/Documentation/md.txt 2006-09-29 11:44:38.000000000 +1000 +++ ./Documentation/md.txt 2006-09-29 11:48:54.000000000 +1000 @@ -154,11 +154,12 @@ contains further md-specific information 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