[PATCH] md: allow available size of component devices to be set 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, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index 866a1a887547..7b3d471bb9f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ Each directory contains:
         the device before this offset us not touched, unless it is
         used for storing metadata (Formats 1.1 and 1.2).
 
+      size
+        The amount of the device, after the offset, that can be used
+        for storage of data.  This will normally be the same as the
+        component_size.  This can be written while assembling an
+        array.  If a value less than the current component_size is
+        written, component_size will be reduced to this value.
+
 
 An active md device will also contain and entry for each active device
 in the array.  These are named