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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/Kconfig | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/raid/md_p.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig index fd2aae150ccc..ac25a48362ac 100644 --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig @@ -139,11 +139,12 @@ config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE is online. However it is still EXPERIMENTAL code. It should work, but please be sure that you have backups. - You will need a version of mdadm newer than 2.3.1. During the - early stage of reshape there is a critical section where live data - is being over-written. A crash during this time needs extra care - for recovery. The newer mdadm takes a copy of the data in the - critical section and will restore it, if necessary, after a crash. + You will need mdadm verion 2.4.1 or later to use this + feature safely. During the early stage of reshape there is + a critical section where live data is being over-written. A + crash during this time needs extra care for recovery. The + newer mdadm takes a copy of the data in the critical section + and will restore it, if necessary, after a crash. The mdadm usage is e.g. mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --raid-disks=6 diff --git a/include/linux/raid/md_p.h b/include/linux/raid/md_p.h index 774e1acfb8c4..f1fbae7e390e 100644 --- a/include/linux/raid/md_p.h +++ b/include/linux/raid/md_p.h @@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ struct mdp_superblock_1 { */ /* These are only valid with feature bit '4' */ - __u64 reshape_position; /* next address in array-space for reshape */ __u32 new_level; /* new level we are reshaping to */ + __u64 reshape_position; /* next address in array-space for reshape */ __u32 delta_disks; /* change in number of raid_disks */ __u32 new_layout; /* new layout */ __u32 new_chunk; /* new chunk size (bytes) */ |