kernel/Documentation/device-mapper/striped.txt, branch linux-4.3.y

dm stripe: support for non power of 2 chunksize

2012-07-27T14:08:01Z

Support non-power-of-2 chunk sizes with dm striping for proper alignment of stripe IO on storage that has non-power-of-2 optimal IO sizes (e.g. RAID6 10+2). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm stripe: fix size test

2012-07-27T14:08:00Z

dm-stripe is supposed to ensure that all the space allocated to the stripes is fully used and that all stripes are the same size. This patch fixes the test. It checks that device length is divisible by the chunk size and checks that the resulting quotient is divisible by the number of stripes (which is equivalent to testing if device length is divisible by chunk_size * stripes). Previously, the code only tested that the number of sectors in the target was divisible by each of the chunk size and the number of stripes separately, which could leave entire stripes unused. (A setup that genuinely needs some stripes to be shorter than others can be created by concatenating striped targets.) Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36Z

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!