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

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On Wed, 11 May 2011 21:11:39 +0400 CoolCold <coolthecold@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> 
> 
> 

Thanks.  I have added this to my queue.  I might go through the whole file
and see what else needs fixing before submitting it though.

NeilBrown

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