From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [md PATCH 8/8] md: Use revalidate_disk to effect changes in size
 of	device.
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:07:03 -0700
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On 08/02/2009 02:58 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> As revalidate_disk calls check_disk_size_change, it will cause
> any capacity change of a gendisk to be propagated to the blockdev
> inode.  So use that instead of mucking about with locks and
> i_size_write.
> 
> Also add a call to revalidate_disk in do_md_run and a few other places
> where the gendisk capacity is changed.
> 

This patch causes my Fedora 11 system with all filesystems on RAID-1 to
not boot (it hangs in early userspace, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the system.)

	-hpa