On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 2:18 AM John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/11/2024 23:05, Song Liu wrote: > >>> WDYT? > >> Indeed it is confusing... > >> So the string is "raid%d-%s", which is > >> 4B for "raid" > >> 10B for max int (right?) > >> 1B for '-' > >> 32B for DISK_NAME_LEN > >> 1B for NUL > >> > >> which totals 48 > >> > >> So I don't know why/how 38 is ok. Maybe there is some auto-padding going > >> on, like you hint at. > >> > >> Maybe just using 48 is better. > > Makes sense. I will update the patch to use 48, and apply it to md-6.13. > > ok, thanks. > > And let me know what you think of 2/2, I am even less happy about the > solution there. 2/2 will go through the device mapper side. Please refer to the following (from MAINTAINERS). DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM) M: Alasdair Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> M: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> M: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> L: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx S: Maintained Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dm-devel/list/ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git Thanks, Song
