Re: [PATCH v2] raid1 balancing

[Gadi Oxman]

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, James Manning wrote:

> [ Saturday, September 18, 1999 ] James Manning wrote:
> > Ok, I wrote a patch that passes the ctl_table pointer of
> > /proc/dev/md as the param for raid?_init, but noticed differing
> > opinions on return values (although it doesn't much matter)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Well, I tried booting and it died with some SYSCTL() errors (figures :)
> so if it looks like the patch at least has the right idea, let me know
> and I'll try fixing up the problems... otherwise lemme know how you'd
> like to see a settable raid1 balance implemented :)
> 
> James
> -- 
> Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development

I originally planned to store the "sect_limit" value for each array
at its RAID superblock (along with other array specific parameters),
and write some utility which will allow viewing and changing the RAID
superblock parameters.

Gadi