[PATCH] md: allow available size of component devices to be set via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index 866a1a8..7b3d471 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@
the device before this offset us not touched, unless it is
used for storing metadata (Formats 1.1 and 1.2).
+ size
+ The amount of the device, after the offset, that can be used
+ for storage of data. This will normally be the same as the
+ component_size. This can be written while assembling an
+ array. If a value less than the current component_size is
+ written, component_size will be reduced to this value.
+
An active md device will also contain and entry for each active device
in the array. These are named