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-rw-r--r--drivers/md/Kconfig11
-rw-r--r--include/linux/raid/md_p.h2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
index fd2aae150cc..ac25a48362a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
@@ -139,11 +139,12 @@ config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE
is online. However it is still EXPERIMENTAL code. It should
work, but please be sure that you have backups.
- You will need a version of mdadm newer than 2.3.1. During the
- early stage of reshape there is a critical section where live data
- is being over-written. A crash during this time needs extra care
- for recovery. The newer mdadm takes a copy of the data in the
- critical section and will restore it, if necessary, after a crash.
+ You will need mdadm verion 2.4.1 or later to use this
+ feature safely. During the early stage of reshape there is
+ a critical section where live data is being over-written. A
+ crash during this time needs extra care for recovery. The
+ newer mdadm takes a copy of the data in the critical section
+ and will restore it, if necessary, after a crash.
The mdadm usage is e.g.
mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --raid-disks=6
diff --git a/include/linux/raid/md_p.h b/include/linux/raid/md_p.h
index 774e1acfb8c..f1fbae7e390 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/md_p.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/md_p.h
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ struct mdp_superblock_1 {
*/
/* These are only valid with feature bit '4' */
- __u64 reshape_position; /* next address in array-space for reshape */
__u32 new_level; /* new level we are reshaping to */
+ __u64 reshape_position; /* next address in array-space for reshape */
__u32 delta_disks; /* change in number of raid_disks */
__u32 new_layout; /* new layout */
__u32 new_chunk; /* new chunk size (bytes) */