From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: [PATCH] md - 0 of 7 - Introduction Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:35:51 +1100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040206162532.30220.patches@notabene> Return-path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi again. Here are 7 patches for md in 2.4.3-pre-current The first flags the START_ARRAY as deprecated - I plan to remove it in 2.7. The comment with that patch explains why. The next 5 provide some cleanup of raid1 code leading to a patch which enabled raid1 to safely use large requests when resyncing (it uses bio_add_page to make sure each page is allowed). This substantially increases resync speed in atleast one test. The final patch in a new version of the partitioning patch. It removes the rather ugly code for forcing the partitions to be re-evaluated and instead makes simple arranges for them to be reread on the next open. This fixes the one bug that was reported against the patch. I have also taken onboard some of the feedback I got about the patch. NeilBrown