Re: [patch] linear does not need chunksize

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Tokarev
Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday July 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] Note chunk size is never used on linear array. The only usage of chunk_size member is in /proc/mdstat, as "rounding" parameter (linear.c) - looks like it should be removed too. This statement isn't entirely true, though it took

Re: [patch] linear does not need chunksize

2005-07-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday July 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When debugging some weird raid failure case, we come > across a problem when kernel disallows assembling a > linear array with zero chunksize, printing > 'no chunksize specified' in dmesg and mdadm failing > with EINVAL. The following patch fixes the p

[patch] linear does not need chunksize

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Tokarev
When debugging some weird raid failure case, we come across a problem when kernel disallows assembling a linear array with zero chunksize, printing 'no chunksize specified' in dmesg and mdadm failing with EINVAL. The following patch fixes the problem (the patch is with large context to show why th