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Commit d33a56d3 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] md: fix duplicity of levels in md.txt 



md.txt has two sections describing the 'level' sysfs attribute, and some of
the text is out-of-date.  So make just one section, and make it right.

Cc: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 61df9d91

Documentation/md.txt

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@@ -154,11 +154,12 @@ contains further md-specific information about the device. 


All md devices contain:

  level

     a text file indicating the 'raid level'.  This may be a standard

     numerical level prefixed by "RAID-" - e.g. "RAID-5", or some

     other name such as "linear" or "multipath".

     a text file indicating the 'raid level'. e.g. raid0, raid1,

     raid5, linear, multipath, faulty.

     If no raid level has been set yet (array is still being

     assembled), this file will be empty.

     assembled), the value will reflect whatever has been written

     to it, which may be a name like the above, or may be a number

     such as '0', '5', etc.



  raid_disks

     a text file with a simple number indicating the number of devices
@@ -192,14 +193,6 @@ All md devices contain: 
     1.2 (newer format in varying locations) or "none" indicating that

     the kernel isn't managing metadata at all.



  level

     The raid 'level' for this array.  The name will often (but not

     always) be the same as the name of the module that implements the

     level.  To be auto-loaded the module must have an alias

        md-$LEVEL  e.g. md-raid5

     This can be written only while the array is being assembled, not

     after it is started.



  layout

     The "layout" for the array for the particular level.  This is

     simply a number that is interpretted differently by different