On Tuesday July 25, paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > This patch (tested against 2.6.18-rc1-mm1) adds a new sysfs interface > that allows the bitmap of an array to be dirtied. The interface is > write-only, and is used as follows: > > echo "1000" > /sys/block/md2/md/bitmap > > (dirty the bit for chunk 1000 [offset 0] in the in-memory and on-disk > bitmaps of array md2) > > echo "1000-2000" > /sys/block/md1/md/bitmap > > (dirty the bits for chunks 1000-2000 in md1's bitmap) > Thanks. Only one remaining issue (which I didn't think of last time :-) Is 'bitmap' the best name for the sysfs file? It seems a bit generic to me. write-bits-here-to-dirty-them-in-the-bitmap is probably (no, definitely) too verbose. dirty-in-bitmap maybe? bitmap-set-bits None of these seem completely satisfying. I like to start with the most important word - which is 'bitmap' in this case, but that isn't completely essential. Any better suggestions? Thanks, NeilBrown - 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
