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@@ -207,6 +207,15 @@ All md devices contain:
available. It will then appear at md/dev-XXX (depending on the
name of the device) and further configuration is then possible.
+ safe_mode_delay
+ When an md array has seen no write requests for a certain period
+ of time, it will be marked as 'clean'. When another write
+ request arrive, the array is marked as 'dirty' before the write
+ commenses. This is known as 'safe_mode'.
+ The 'certain period' is controlled by this file which stores the
+ period as a number of seconds. The default is 200msec (0.200).
+ Writing a value of 0 disables safemode.
+
sync_speed_min
sync_speed_max
This are similar to /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_{min,max}
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