Re: [PATCH 001 of 7] md: Support 'external' metadata for md arrays.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:26:08 +1100 NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + if (strncmp(buf, "external:", 9) == 0) { > + int namelen = len-9; > + if (namelen >= sizeof(mddev->metadata_type)) > + namelen = sizeof(mddev->metadata_type)-1; > +

[PATCH 001 of 7] md: Support 'external' metadata for md arrays.

- Add a state flag 'external' to indicate that the metadata is managed externally (by user-space) so important changes need to be left of user-space to handle. Alternates are non-persistant ('none') where there is no stable metadata - after the array is stopped there is no record of it's