> > What I don't understand is, why is ->faulty flag used all thru md.c when > > we have mark_disk_faulty(sb->disks+disk->number); and bitmaped status for > > the same reason. Are they diferent in any case, or is it the case, that > > structure mdp_disk_t used in disk_faulty is not accessible on those > > places. > > There is a lot of this sort of duplication of information in the md > code. I did a bit of work to clean it up a while ago, but never > completed it. I should dig out that patch one day and try again. Is the idea of the patch as straight-forward as it sounds? I'd be interested in learning more about the RAID code - would working your changes be a simple enough exercise to begin with? Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
