[PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction EXPLAIN PATCH SET HERE

2007-12-13 Thread NeilBrown
Following are 7 md related patches are suitable for the next -mm and maybe for 2.6.25. They move towards giving user-space programs more fine control of an array so that we can add support for more complex metadata formats (e.g. DDF) without bothering the kernel with such things. The last patch i

[PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction EXPLAIN PATCH SET HERE

2007-05-20 Thread NeilBrown
Following are 7 patches for md in current main-line. The first two fix bugs that can cause data corruption, and so are suitable for -stable. The next fixes some problems with hot-adding a device to a linear array. As has not been tested by my test-suite until now, it hasn't worked properly un