On Wednesday November 20, brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:09:18PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> > u32 feature_map /* bit map of extra features in superblock */
>
> Perhaps compat/incompat feature flags, like ext[23]?
I thought about that, but am not sure that it makes sense as there is
much less metadata in a raid array than there is in a filesystem.
I think I am happier to have initial code require feature_map == 0 or
it doesn't get loaded, and if it becomes an issue, get user-space to
clear any 'compatible' flags before passing the device to an 'old'
kernel.
>
> Also, journal information, such as a journal UUID?
As there is no current code, or serious project that I know of, to add
journalling to md (I have thought about it, but it isn't a priority) I
wouldn't like to pre-empt it at all by defining fields now. I would
rather that presense-of-a-journal be indicated by a bit in the feature map,
and that would imply uuid was stored in one of the current 'pad'
fields. I think there is plenty of space.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Rugolsky
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