Paul Clements <paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The loss of pagecache coherency seems sad. I assume there's never a > > requirement for userspace to read this file. > > Actually, there is. mdadm reads the bitmap file, so that would be > broken. Also, it's just useful for a user to be able to read the bitmap > (od -x, or similar) to figure out approximately how much more he's got > to resync to get an array in-sync. Other than reading the bitmap file, I > don't know of any way to determine that. Read it with O_DIRECT :( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
