Re: [PATCH] md.4: two typos fixed

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:24:17 -0400 Bill Allaire <vger@bogoflop.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Bill Allaire <vger@bogoflop.com>
> ---
>   md.4 |    4 ++--
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/md.4 b/md.4
> index 36719ba..d97803c 100644
> --- a/md.4
> +++ b/md.4
> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ details.
>   .I md
>   is able to communicate with the user-space program through various
>   sysfs attributes so that it can make appropriate changes to the
> -metadata \- for example to make a device as faulty.  When necessary,
> +metadata \- for example to mark a device as faulty.  When necessary,
>   .I md
>   will wait for the program to acknowledge the event by writing to a
>   sysfs attribute.
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ spindle. In theory, having an N-disk RAID1 will 
> allow N sequential
>   threads to read from all disks.
> 
>   Individual devices in a RAID1 can be marked as "write-mostly".
> -This drives are excluded from the normal read balancing and will only
> +These drives are excluded from the normal read balancing and will only
>   be read from when there is no other option.  This can be useful for
>   devices connected over a slow link.
> 

Applied - thanks.

However the patch was corrupted a bit - most of the lines had 2 leading
spaces where they should have had one.  It was easy enough to fix it but for
a larger patch it would be a problem.

There is presumably some way to tell Thunderbird to send the text verbatim
and not reformat it, but I have no idea what that way would be...

NeilBrown