Re: [PATCH 1/4 v2] mdadm: bad block support for external metadata - initialization

[Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:53:42AM +0200, Tomasz Majchrzak wrote:
> If metadata handler provides support for bad blocks, tell md by writing
> 'external_bbl' to rdev state file (both on create and assemble),
> followed by a list of known bad blocks written via sysfs 'bad_blocks'
> file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
> ---
>  mdadm.h | 13 +++++++++++++
>  sysfs.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi Jes,

Do you have any comments for this patch set? It is a generic code for bad
block support for external metadata. It comes ahead of my other patch set
which provides IMSM implementation of new functionality.

Regards,

Tomek