Commit 93c944b2 authored by Neil Brown's avatar Neil Brown Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] md: RAID Kconfig cleanups, remove experimental tag from RAID-6

This patch removes the experimental tag from RAID-6 (unfortunately the
damage is already done...:-|) and cleans up a few more things in the
Kconfig file.
Signed-Off-By: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 4cee2ee5
......@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ config MD_RAID10
mirroring (RAID-1) with easier configuration and more flexable
layout.
Unlike RAID-0, but like RAID-1, RAID-10 requires all devices to
be the same size (or atleast, only as much as the smallest device
be the same size (or at least, only as much as the smallest device
will be used).
RAID-10 provides a variety of layouts that provide different levels
of redundancy and performance.
......@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ config MD_RAID10
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
If unsure, say Y.
config MD_RAID5
tristate "RAID-4/RAID-5 mode"
......@@ -120,20 +121,16 @@ config MD_RAID5
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. There you will also
learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5 set, say Y. To compile
this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called raid5.
If you want to use such a RAID-4/RAID-5 set, say Y. To
compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called raid5.
If unsure, say Y.
config MD_RAID6
tristate "RAID-6 mode (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD && EXPERIMENTAL
tristate "RAID-6 mode"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
---help---
WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
or re-appoint George W. Bush.
A RAID-6 set of N drives with a capacity of C MB per drive
provides the capacity of C * (N - 2) MB, and protects
against a failure of any two drives. For a given sector
......@@ -150,7 +147,7 @@ config MD_RAID6
this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called raid6.
If unsure, say N.
If unsure, say Y.
config MD_MULTIPATH
tristate "Multipath I/O support"
......
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