Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] md: expose rdev->sb_start as sysfs attribute

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On Tue, Dec 06 2016, Artur Paszkiewicz wrote:

> This is meant for external metadata arrays, to pass the location of the
> superblock to the kernel.

The whole point of external metadata arrays is that the metadata is
handled externally.  The kernel doesn't need to know where it is.

Certainly the kernel needs to know where the PPL is, but that is quite a
different question to knowing where the superblock is.

NeilBrown

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