From 83303b613d00718b07ec0a4dee7c99aa66629d96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:21:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] md: allow available size of component devices to be set via sysfs Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Acked-by: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/md.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/md.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index 866a1a887547..7b3d471bb9f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ Each directory contains: the device before this offset us not touched, unless it is used for storing metadata (Formats 1.1 and 1.2). + size + The amount of the device, after the offset, that can be used + for storage of data. This will normally be the same as the + component_size. This can be written while assembling an + array. If a value less than the current component_size is + written, component_size will be reduced to this value. + An active md device will also contain and entry for each active device in the array. These are named -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b