Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The loss of pagecache coherency seems sad. I assume there's never a > > requirement for userspace to read this file. > > Actually, there is. mdadm reads the bitmap file, so that would be > broken. Also, it's just useful for a user to be able to read the bitmap > (od -x, or similar) to figure out approximately how much more he's got > to resync to get an array in-sync. Other than reading the bitmap file, I > don't know of any way to determine that.
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