From 3b34380ae8c5df6debd85183c7fa1ac05f79b7d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:20:47 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] md: allow chunk_size to be settable through sysfs ... only before array is started of course. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Acked-by: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/md.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/md.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt index 1dd0fb6021c..9710138d101 100644 --- a/Documentation/md.txt +++ b/Documentation/md.txt @@ -166,6 +166,14 @@ All md devices contain: will be empty. If an array is being resized (not currently possible) this will contain the larger of the old and new sizes. + chunk_size + This is the size if bytes for 'chunks' and is only relevant to + raid levels that involve striping (1,4,5,6,10). The address space + of the array is conceptually divided into chunks and consecutive + chunks are striped onto neighbouring devices. + The size should be atleast PAGE_SIZE (4k) and should be a power + of 2. This can only be set while assembling an array + As component devices are added to an md array, they appear in the 'md' directory as new directories named dev-XXX -- cgit v1.2.3