Re: [PATCH] md: Add support for data integrity to MD

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> writes:

Neil> But what if we subsequently add a different device to that array
Neil> which uses a different protection format.  Would we be able to
Neil> tell the filesystem that integrity protection isn't available
Neil> any more?  Or can we detect if the filesystem is using integrity
Neil> protection, and reject the new device if it doesn't match?

Generally the filesystem will look at the block device's integrity
profile every time it prepares an I/O.  So if we add a subdevice and
detect a mismatch the mddev integrity profile should be removed.


Neil> In either case, some extra handling is needed in
Neil> bind_rdev_to_array.

This code has been sitting in my patch queue for several months
waiting for the core of the integrity stuff to go in.  So I'm a bit
fuzzy on the details.  I'll take a look...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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