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[PATCH] md: fix duplicity of levels in md.txt
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md.txt has two sections describing the 'level' sysfs attribute, and some of
the text is out-of-date.  So make just one section, and make it right.

Cc: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 3, 2006
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All md devices contain:
level
a text file indicating the 'raid level'. This may be a standard
numerical level prefixed by "RAID-" - e.g. "RAID-5", or some
other name such as "linear" or "multipath".
a text file indicating the 'raid level'. e.g. raid0, raid1,
raid5, linear, multipath, faulty.
If no raid level has been set yet (array is still being
assembled), this file will be empty.
assembled), the value will reflect whatever has been written
to it, which may be a name like the above, or may be a number
such as '0', '5', etc.

raid_disks
a text file with a simple number indicating the number of devices
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1.2 (newer format in varying locations) or "none" indicating that
the kernel isn't managing metadata at all.

level
The raid 'level' for this array. The name will often (but not
always) be the same as the name of the module that implements the
level. To be auto-loaded the module must have an alias
md-$LEVEL e.g. md-raid5
This can be written only while the array is being assembled, not
after it is started.

layout
The "layout" for the array for the particular level. This is
simply a number that is interpretted differently by different
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