Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030556AbWHIGit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:38:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030557AbWHIGit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:38:49 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:49634 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030544AbWHIGis (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:38:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:35:38 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Neil Brown cc: Michael Tokarev , Alexandre Oliva , linux-raid , linux-kernel Subject: Re: modifying degraded raid 1 then re-adding other members is bad In-Reply-To: <17625.4242.910985.97868@cse.unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: References: <17624.29070.246605.213021@cse.unsw.edu.au> <44D8732C.2060207@tls.msk.ru> <17625.4242.910985.97868@cse.unsw.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 489 Lines: 15 >> Why we're updating it BACKWARD in the first place? > >To avoid writing to spares when it isn't needed - some people want >their spare drives to go to sleep. That sounds a little dangerous. What if it decrements below 0? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/