Commit 28a83978 authored by CoolCold's avatar CoolCold Committed by NeilBrown

md: Update documentation for sync_min and sync_max entries

linux/Documentation/md.txt is missing description for sync_min and
sync_max entries.
This patch adds description for sync_min and sync_max entries.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Ovchinnikov <coolthecold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
parent fee68723
......@@ -552,6 +552,16 @@ also have
within the array where IO will be blocked. This is currently
only supported for raid4/5/6.
sync_min
sync_max
The two values, given as numbers of sectors, indicate a range
withing the array where 'check'/'repair' will operate. Must be
a multiple of chunk_size. When it reaches "sync_max" it will
pause, rather than complete.
You can use 'select' or 'poll' on "sync_completed" to wait for
that number to reach sync_max. Then you can either increase
"sync_max", or can write 'idle' to "sync_action".
Each active md device may also have attributes specific to the
personality module that manages it.
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