aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/drivers/md/md.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 7d8c2bb..13dd7b2 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")) {