Re: [PATCH 001 of 7] md: Support 'external' metadata for md arrays.
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2007-12-25 22:04:36
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:26:08 +1100 NeilBrown [off-list ref] wrote:
+ if (strncmp(buf, "external:", 9) == 0) {
+ int namelen = len-9;
+ if (namelen >= sizeof(mddev->metadata_type))
+ namelen = sizeof(mddev->metadata_type)-1;
+ strncpy(mddev->metadata_type, buf+9, namelen);
+ mddev->metadata_type[namelen] = 0;
+ if (namelen && mddev->metadata_type[namelen-1] == '\n')
+ mddev->metadata_type[--namelen] = 0;
+ mddev->persistent = 0;
+ mddev->external = 1;size_t would be a more appropriate type for `namelen'.