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List:       linux-raid
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Re: What is 2.4.0-test10: md1 has overlapping
From:       Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook () arm ! com>
Date:       2000-11-20 14:41:07
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Folks,

I won't try and invent a patch(1) for this, but might I suggest changing:

    md: serializing resync, md%d has shares one or more physical units with 
md%d!\n

to

    md: serializing resync, md%d shares one or more disk drives with md%d. 
Array performance may suffer.\n

Regards,

Ruth

At 12:49 AM 11/20/00, you wrote:
>  the attached patch, modifies a warning message in md.c which seems to
>  often cause confusion - the following email includes one example
>  there-of (there have been others over the months).
> > What it means is that some partititions in md1 and md2 are on the same 
> disk,
> > and that the md-code will not do the reconstruction of these arrays in
> > parallel [of course, for performance reasons].
> >
>
>
>--- ./drivers/md/md.c   2000/11/20 00:33:08     1.2
>+++ ./drivers/md/md.c   2000/11/20 00:44:19     1.3
>@@ -3279,7 +3279,7 @@
>                 if (mddev2 == mddev)
>                         continue;
>                 if (mddev2->curr_resync && match_mddev_units(mddev,mddev2)) {
>-                       printk(KERN_INFO "md: serializing resync, md%d has 
>overlapping physical units with md%d!\n", mdidx(mddev), mdidx(mddev2));
>+                       printk(KERN_INFO "md: serializing resync, md%d has 
>shares one or more physical units with md%d!\n", mdidx(mddev), mdidx(mddev2));
>                         serialize = 1;
>                         break;
>                 }
>-



-- 

Ruth 
Ivimey-Cook                       ruthc@sharra.demon.co.uk
Technical 
Author, ARM Ltd              ruth.ivimey-cook@arm.com

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