On Wednesday June 17, sjt.kar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Sorry what your patch claims is that the raid array can change the number of > array's otherwise there is no need for an rcu. > > > What makes you think that md is static when you array itself can grow. > > md contains information pertaining to the array it holds. > > This is what I saying my the md is built statically on top of the raid. md/linear allows an array to grow while it is only. You can add a drive to a 'linear' array and it will become larger to include that drive. So the array is not completely static. 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
