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NeilBrown authored
commit c6563a8c md: add possibility to change data-offset for devices. introduced a 'new_data_offset' attribute which should normally be the same as 'data_offset', but can be explicitly set to a different value to allow a reshape operation to move the data. Unfortunately when the 'data_offset' is explicitly set through sysfs, the new_data_offset is not also set, so the two would become out-of-sync incorrectly. One result of this is that trying to set the 'size' after the 'data_offset' would fail because it is not permitted to set the size when the 'data_offset' and 'new_data_offset' are different - as that can be confusing. Consequently when mdadm tried to do this while assembling an IMSM array it would fail. This bug was introduced in 3.5-rc1. Reported-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> Bisected-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> Tested-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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