Hi Sujit, On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Sujit Karataparambil<sjt.kar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry this was not my question. What I am asking is whether md is built on > top of the raid statically or is it an dynamic part of the raid array. > What makes you think that md is static when you array itself can grow. md contains information pertaining to the array it holds. > As with my experiance md is built statically. Your answer > >> mddev->raid_disks can change, when you add disks and also in the mean >> while when you are updating the conf, the older conf might be being >> used at various other places. > > does not speicify either. It seems to be from manual pages that tries > to administrate > raid array's. > -- Regards, Sandeep. “To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.” -- 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