Re: [PATCH 001 of 5] md: Split disks array out of raid5 conf structure so it is easier to grow.

2006-01-22 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday January 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Though now that I look at it, don't we have a circular reference > here? Let me quote the code section, which starts of with where I was > confused: .. > > Now we seem to end up with: > > mddev->private = conf; > conf->mddev = mddev;

Re: [PATCH 001 of 5] md: Split disks array out of raid5 conf structure so it is easier to grow.

2006-01-20 Thread John Stoffel
> "Neil" == Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Neil> On Tuesday January 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > "NeilBrown" == NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> NeilBrown> Previously the array of disk information was included in NeilBrown> the raid5 'conf' structure which was alloca

Re: [PATCH 001 of 5] md: Split disks array out of raid5 conf structure so it is easier to grow.

2006-01-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday January 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "NeilBrown" == NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NeilBrown> Previously the array of disk information was included in > NeilBrown> the raid5 'conf' structure which was allocated to an > NeilBrown> appropriate size. This makes it awkw

Re: [PATCH 001 of 5] md: Split disks array out of raid5 conf structure so it is easier to grow.

2006-01-17 Thread John Stoffel
> "NeilBrown" == NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NeilBrown> Previously the array of disk information was included in NeilBrown> the raid5 'conf' structure which was allocated to an NeilBrown> appropriate size. This makes it awkward to change the size NeilBrown> of that array. So we sp