linux-kernel - [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Remove 'experimental' classification from raid5 reshape.

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Message-Id:  <1060929025310.15229@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:53:10 +1000
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Remove 'experimental' classification from raid5 reshape.


I have had enough success reports not to believe that this 
is safe for 2.6.19.


Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/Kconfig |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff .prev/drivers/md/Kconfig ./drivers/md/Kconfig
--- .prev/drivers/md/Kconfig	2006-09-29 11:38:03.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/Kconfig	2006-09-29 11:49:16.000000000 +1000
@@ -138,16 +138,16 @@ config MD_RAID456
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
 config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE
-	bool "Support adding drives to a raid-5 array (experimental)"
-	depends on MD_RAID456 && EXPERIMENTAL
+	bool "Support adding drives to a raid-5 array"
+	depends on MD_RAID456
+	default y
 	---help---
 	  A RAID-5 set can be expanded by adding extra drives. This
 	  requires "restriping" the array which means (almost) every
 	  block must be written to a different place.
 
           This option allows such restriping to be done while the array
-	  is online.  However it is still EXPERIMENTAL code.  It should
-	  work, but please be sure that you have backups.
+	  is online.
 
 	  You will need mdadm version 2.4.1 or later to use this
 	  feature safely.  During the early stage of reshape there is
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE
 	  There should be enough spares already present to make the new
 	  array workable.
 
+	  In unsure, say Y.
+
 config MD_MULTIPATH
 	tristate "Multipath I/O support"
 	depends on BLK_DEV_MD
-
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