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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/md.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 7d8c2bb0a67..13dd7b27615 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -2943,7 +2943,13 @@ metadata_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len) { int major, minor; char *e; - if (!list_empty(&mddev->disks)) + /* Changing the details of 'external' metadata is + * always permitted. Otherwise there must be + * no devices attached to the array. + */ + if (mddev->external && strncmp(buf, "external:", 9) == 0) + ; + else if (!list_empty(&mddev->disks)) return -EBUSY; if (cmd_match(buf, "none")) { |