Re: [PATCH] md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races in

SandeepKsinha
2009-06-17T09:32:12Z

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.
>

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Regards,
Sandeep.

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