Re: [PATCH] Update documentation for sync_min and sync_max entries

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:30:38 +0300 CoolCold <coolthecold@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch is against 2.6.37 (
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.37.y.git
> , commit id 97b197f07d15dbcd53328e75754e2f947814c733 ) but I didn't
> notice any changes in 2.6.38 though.
> 
> linux/Documentation/md.txt is missing description for sync_min and
> sync_max entries.
> This patch adds description for sync_min and sync_max entries.

Applied, thanks.

It will go upsteam in due course.

NeilBrown


> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Ovchinnikov <coolthecold@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/md.txt |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
> index a81c7b4..8f8cb4f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/md.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/md.txt
> @@ -552,6 +552,16 @@ also have
>       within the array where IO will be blocked.  This is currently
>       only supported for raid4/5/6.
> 
> +   sync_min
> +   sync_max
> +     The two values, given as numbers of sectors, indicate a range
> +     withing the array where 'check'/'repair' will operate. Must be
> +     a multiple of chunk_size. When it reaches "sync_max" it will
> +     pause, rather than complete.
> +     You can use 'select' or 'poll' on "sync_completed" to wait for
> +     that number to reach sync_max.  Then you can either increase
> +     "sync_max", or can write 'idle' to "sync_action".
> +
> 
>  Each active md device may also have attributes specific to the
>  personality module that manages it.

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