Linus, Ingo:

 the attached patch, modifies a warning message in md.c which seems to
 often cause confusion - the following email includes one example
 there-of (there have been others over the months).

 Hopefully the new text is clearer.

 (patch against 2.4.0-test11-pre7)

NeilBrown


On Sunday November 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:39:43AM -0800, George Garvey wrote:
> > Is this something to be concerned about? It sounds like a disaster waiting
> > to happen from the message. This is on 2 systems (with similar disk setups
> > [same other than size]).
> 
> > Nov 18 16:31:02 mwg kernel: md: serializing resync, md1 has overlapping physical 
>units with md2!  
> 
> Nope, nothing to worry about -- it's just a bad choice of wording ;)
> 
> What it means is that some partititions in md1 and md2 are on the same disk,
> and that the md-code will not do the reconstruction of these arrays in
> parallel [of course, for performance reasons].
> 


--- ./drivers/md/md.c   2000/11/20 00:33:08     1.2
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c   2000/11/20 00:44:19     1.3
@@ -3279,7 +3279,7 @@
                if (mddev2 == mddev)
                        continue;
                if (mddev2->curr_resync && match_mddev_units(mddev,mddev2)) {
-                       printk(KERN_INFO "md: serializing resync, md%d has overlapping 
physical units with md%d!\n", mdidx(mddev), mdidx(mddev2));
+                       printk(KERN_INFO "md: serializing resync, md%d has shares one 
+or more physical units with md%d!\n", mdidx(mddev), mdidx(mddev2));
                        serialize = 1;
                        break;
                }
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