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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2008-04-30 00:52:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-30 08:29:32 -0700
commit8377bc808029251c2c0f52116cf87d80291b25bf (patch)
tree4cf50fc32d81a6c5f6f98a0503cc05ea924b58eb
parent6a51830e14529063cb2685921e1177d9af50e49a (diff)
md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata.
All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 11457a28a14..61767f1962e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1652,6 +1652,8 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev, int force_change)
int sync_req;
int nospares = 0;
+ if (mddev->external)
+ return;
repeat:
spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);