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From: SandeepKsinha <sandeepksinha@gmail.com>
To: Sujit Karataparambil <sjt.kar@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:02:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37d33d830906170232s75421f5as2e6bbd9db1fe10ac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <921ca19c0906170214i2c70c2ebg7f59d525d9ba6307@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Sujit,


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Sujit Karataparambil<sjt.kar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry this was not my question. What I am asking is whether md is built on
> top of the raid statically or is it an dynamic part of the raid array.
>

What makes you think that md is static when you array itself can grow.
md contains information pertaining to the array it holds.


> As with my experiance md is built statically. Your answer
>
>> mddev->raid_disks can change, when you add disks and also in the mean
>> while when you are updating the conf, the older conf might be being
>> used at various other places.
>
> does not speicify either. It seems to be from manual pages that tries
> to administrate
> raid array's.
>



-- 
Regards,
Sandeep.





 	
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06 15:24 [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in SandeepKsinha
2009-06-14 22:56 ` Neil Brown
2009-06-17  6:35   ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17  6:46     ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17  8:02       ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-17  8:48         ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17  9:14           ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-17  9:32             ` SandeepKsinha [this message]
2009-06-17  9:37               ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-17 10:01                 ` Neil Brown
     [not found]                   ` <37d33d830906170315k4087d532nc2426879c2063fd7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-06-17 10:17                     ` SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17 23:38                       ` [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races Neil Brown
2009-06-17  9:59       ` [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in Neil Brown
2009-06-17  6:50     ` NeilBrown

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