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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2012-08-01 12:40:02 +0200
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2012-08-01 12:40:02 +0200
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parentmd/RAID1: Add missing case for attempting to repair known bad blocks. (diff)
parentdm raid: move sectors_per_dev calculation (diff)
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Merge commit 'c039c332f23e794deb6d6f37b9f07ff3b27fb2cf' into md
Pull in pre-requisites for adding raid10 support to dm-raid.
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@@ -9,15 +9,14 @@ devices in parallel.
Parameters: <num devs> <chunk size> [<dev path> <offset>]+
<num devs>: Number of underlying devices.
- <chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be a power-of-2 and at
- least as large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
+ <chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be at least as
+ large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
<dev path>: Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a
"major:minor" device-number.
<offset>: Starting sector within the device.
One or more underlying devices can be specified. The striped device size must
-be a multiple of the chunk size and a multiple of the number of underlying
-devices.
+be a multiple of the chunk size multiplied by the number of underlying devices.
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