[PATCH] md: export rdev->data_offset via sysfs

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index d525fffc873b..866a1a887547 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ Each directory contains:
         it currently fills.  This can only be set while assembling an
         array.  A device for which this is set is assumed to be working.
 
+      offset
+        This gives the location in the device (in sectors from the
+        start) where data from the array will be stored.  Any part of
+        the device before this offset us not touched, unless it is
+        used for storing metadata (Formats 1.1 and 1.2).
+
 
 An active md device will also contain and entry for each active device
 in the array.  These are named