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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