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dm writecache: support optional offset for start of device
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:00:14 +0000 (21:00 -0400)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 20:14:02 +0000 (16:14 -0400)
commite56d600935b37faed72a8d15e1a352a9e5b5dc63
tree870a2d83e41eb2a2acd8f09b8e19db580a3af368
parentbd594001da828129ed149628b7cd368061398a51
dm writecache: support optional offset for start of device

Add an optional parameter "start_sector" to allow the start of the
device to be offset by the specified number of 512-byte sectors.  The
sectors below this offset are not used by the writecache device and are
left to be used for disk labels and/or userspace metadata (e.g. lvm).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt
drivers/md/dm-writecache.c