From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SandeepKsinha Subject: Re: [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:02:12 +0530 Message-ID: <37d33d830906170232s75421f5as2e6bbd9db1fe10ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <37d33d830906060824u1bf71f1ej22efc3e8bbcaf2b9@mail.gmail.com> <18997.32786.206008.486995@notabene.brown> <37d33d830906162335j2dda043dn7e5c19d3b40de103@mail.gmail.com> <37d33d830906162346m725af61bg5356e2081f05ce74@mail.gmail.com> <921ca19c0906170102s2928dbbeqb76fc933f2ee60f7@mail.gmail.com> <37d33d830906170148l74d95cd9g90738dfd278361c7@mail.gmail.com> <921ca19c0906170214i2c70c2ebg7f59d525d9ba6307@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <921ca19c0906170214i2c70c2ebg7f59d525d9ba6307@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sujit Karataparambil Cc: Neil Brown , Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi Sujit, On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Sujit Karataparambil wrote: > Sorry this was not my question. What I am asking is whether md is bui= lt on > top of the raid statically or is it an dynamic part of the raid array= =2E > 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 mea= n >> 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. > --=20 Regards, Sandeep. =09 =93To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learn= er.=94 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html