Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc6] md: expose uuid and degraded attributes in sysfs

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday February 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think moving it would get much argument, but having it visible has advantages as noted in the original post, and opens the door to someone writing code to allow the uuid to be changed with a write to a sys file. We

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc6] md: expose uuid and degraded attributes in sysfs

2007-02-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday February 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iustin Pop wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:59:48AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: From: Iustin Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch exposes the uuid and the degraded status of an assembled array through sysfs.

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc6] md: expose uuid and degraded attributes in sysfs

2007-02-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think moving it would get much argument, but having it visible has advantages as noted in the original post, and opens the door to someone writing code to allow the uuid to be changed with a write to a sys file. We had a discussion of

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc6] md: expose uuid and degraded attributes in sysfs

2007-02-10 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:59:48AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: From: Iustin Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch exposes the uuid and the degraded status of an assembled array through sysfs. [...] Sorry to ask, this was my first patch and I'm not sure what is the procedure to get it considered for

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc6] md: expose uuid and degraded attributes in sysfs

2007-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Iustin Pop wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:59:48AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: From: Iustin Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch exposes the uuid and the degraded status of an assembled array through sysfs. [...] Sorry to ask, this was my first patch and I'm not sure what is the procedure

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc6] md: expose uuid and degraded attributes in sysfs

2007-02-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday February 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iustin Pop wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:59:48AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: From: Iustin Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch exposes the uuid and the degraded status of an assembled array through sysfs. [...] Sorry to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc6] md: expose uuid and degraded attributes in sysfs

2007-02-10 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:15:31AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: Resending after a suitable pause (1-2 weeks) is never a bad idea. Ok, noted, thanks. Exposing the UUID isn't - and if it were it should be in md_default_attrs rather than md_redundancy_attrs. The UUID isn't an intrinsic aspect of