md/md-bitmap: add a new sysfs api bitmap_type
authorYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:04:20 +0000 (16:04 +0800)
committerYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Sat, 6 Sep 2025 09:19:04 +0000 (17:19 +0800)
commit180b82c1c7b2c2c5bffc1642239bed36d7e83f76
tree0560ee8c8804bb583667cfaffa83dc94efc735f4
parent300bffa870c5dfaae87c169b1d5edc9c285a81a6
md/md-bitmap: add a new sysfs api bitmap_type

The api will be used by mdadm to set bitmap_type while creating new array
or assembling array, prepare to add a new bitmap.

Currently available options are:

cat /sys/block/md0/md/bitmap_type
none [bitmap]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20250829080426.1441678-6-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Nan <linan122@huawei.com>
Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst
drivers/md/md.c