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md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:52:28 +0000 (00:52 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:32 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space
or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/md/md.c

index 11457a28a14cfa5967c7c69b62fb5479095dfdf1..61767f1962ebf39f5c96d72803147dd96b0c8bf5 100644 (file)
@@ -1652,6 +1652,8 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev, int force_change)
        int sync_req;
        int nospares = 0;
 
+       if (mddev->external)
+               return;
 repeat:
        spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);