There is orthographical mistake in patch, in word "withing", should be "within". I guess this is too little for one more emailed patch, so just notifying & marking line. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:30 PM, 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. > > 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 ++ within 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. > -- Best regards, [COOLCOLD-RIPN] -- 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