All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c --- .prev/drivers/md/md.c 2008-04-29 12:27:55.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2008-04-29 12:27:56.000000000 +1000 @@ -1651,6 +1651,8 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev int sync_req; int nospares = 0; + if (mddev->external) + return; repeat: spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock); -- 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