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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2008-02-06 01:39:55 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-06 10:41:19 -0800
commita17184a911195c274104df98a79bec10f57e735d (patch)
tree786eca010cb2c4495702f983420258c4ef8efbe5 /drivers/md/md.c
parentca38805945edf5d1f5444b283eed95bb954772e8 (diff)
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md: allow an md array to appear with 0 drives if it has external metadata
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 3975756..08e0f8d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -4647,9 +4647,10 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
*/
/* if we are not initialised yet, only ADD_NEW_DISK, STOP_ARRAY,
* RUN_ARRAY, and GET_ and SET_BITMAP_FILE are allowed */
- if (!mddev->raid_disks && cmd != ADD_NEW_DISK && cmd != STOP_ARRAY
- && cmd != RUN_ARRAY && cmd != SET_BITMAP_FILE
- && cmd != GET_BITMAP_FILE) {
+ if ((!mddev->raid_disks && !mddev->external)
+ && cmd != ADD_NEW_DISK && cmd != STOP_ARRAY
+ && cmd != RUN_ARRAY && cmd != SET_BITMAP_FILE
+ && cmd != GET_BITMAP_FILE) {
err = -ENODEV;
goto abort_unlock;
}
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