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| author | NeilBrown | 2006-01-06 00:20:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-01-06 08:34:08 -0800 |
| commit | 8bb93aaca2062cd54cc2c58c76ee8409cae209a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 12efef0262795f4d4462c8ac8e0fd6e2117ee81a /Documentation/md.txt | |
| parent | a35b0d695d44410eb1734c9abb632725a3138628 (diff) | |
[PATCH] md: expose md metadata format in sysfs
Allow it to be set to a particular version, or 'none'.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/md.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/md.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index 0a2e10a4040d..c5512afd5917 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ All md devices contain: the array if the personality supports it (raid1, raid5, raid6), and if the component drives are large enough. + metadata_version + This indicates the format that is being used to record metadata + about the array. It can be 0.90 (traditional format), 1.0, 1.1, + 1.2 (newer format in varying locations) or "none" indicating that + the kernel isn't managing metadata at all. + As component devices are added to an md array, they appear in the 'md' directory as new directories named dev-XXX |