From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: [PATCH 000 of 11] md: Introduction - assort md enhancements for 2.6.18 Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 15:29:56 +1000 Message-ID: <20060501152229.18367.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, "H. Peter Anvin" List-Id: linux-raid.ids The follow 11 patch are assorted tidy-ups and functionality enhancements suitable for 2.6.18 when that opens up. More interesting patches are: 5 - merge raid5 and raid6 code into a single module. There is a lot of common code here, and there are advantages in uniting it all. 8 - allow a linear array to be expanded while online by adding an extra drive. 10- A new flavour of 'raid10' which matches one of the layouts supported by 'DDF' - an industry standard raid metadata format which might be supported one day. This will need an updated mdadm to experiment with. Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH 001 of 11] md: Reformat code in raid1_end_write_request to avoid goto [PATCH 002 of 11] md: Remove arbitrary limit on chunk size. [PATCH 003 of 11] md: Remove useless ioctl warning. [PATCH 004 of 11] md: Increase the delay before marking metadata clean, and make it configurable. [PATCH 005 of 11] md: Merge raid5 and raid6 code [PATCH 006 of 11] md: Remove nuisance message at shutdown [PATCH 007 of 11] md: Allow checkpoint of recovery with version-1 superblock. [PATCH 008 of 11] md: Allow a linear array to have drives added while active. [PATCH 009 of 11] md: Support stripe/offset mode in raid10 [PATCH 010 of 11] md: make md_print_devices() static [PATCH 011 of 11] md: Split reshape portion of raid5 sync_request into a separate function.