On Monday April 14, raid@a2000.nu wrote: > trying to do a raidsetfaulty on my hotspare disk (i was trying to see if i > would get any email from mdadm --monitor) 1/ The only real BUG here is the fact that it prints out a confusing message. The real meaning of "bug in file raid5.c, line 540" is "I got a failure message on a drive that I wasn't even using". 2/ A hot spare cannot fail in 'real life' as it is not being used. i.e. you cannot fail to do something when you are not being asked to do anything. So no, mdadm won't report it, as it cannot happen. (I'm not saying that a hot spare cannot fail. I might suddenly catch on fire for all I know. But there is no sense in which that is a meaningful failure for md.) NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
