### Comments for ChangeSet 2.4 kernels are very fussy about some values in the superblock, and 2.6 got them wrong. This fixes it. ----------- Diffstat output ------------ ./drivers/md/md.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c --- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2003-08-24 08:07:18.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2003-08-26 09:11:39.000000000 +1000 @@ -638,14 +638,13 @@ static void super_90_sync(mddev_t *mddev /* make rdev->sb match mddev data.. * * 1/ zero out disks - * 2/ Add info for each disk, keeping track of highest desc_nr - * 3/ any empty disks < highest become removed + * 2/ Add info for each disk, keeping track of highest desc_nr (next_spare); + * 3/ any empty disks < next_spare become removed * * disks[0] gets initialised to REMOVED because * we cannot be sure from other fields if it has * been initialised or not. */ - int highest = 0; int i; int active=0, working=0,failed=0,spare=0,nr_disks=0; @@ -716,17 +715,17 @@ static void super_90_sync(mddev_t *mddev spare++; working++; } - if (rdev2->desc_nr > highest) - highest = rdev2->desc_nr; } - /* now set the "removed" bit on any non-trailing holes */ - for (i=0; i<highest; i++) { + /* now set the "removed" and "faulty" bits on any missing devices */ + for (i=0 ; i < mddev->raid_disks ; i++) { mdp_disk_t *d = &sb->disks[i]; if (d->state == 0 && d->number == 0) { d->number = i; d->raid_disk = i; d->state = (1<<MD_DISK_REMOVED); + d->state |= (1<<MD_DISK_FAULTY); + failed++; } } sb->nr_disks = nr_disks; - 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