Currently if there are two failed drives, and two spares are added, then recovery starts onto the first spare, but never notices the second spare. To cope, we set RECOVERY_NEEDED when recovery finishes so that we re-check. ----------- Diffstat output ------------ ./drivers/md/md.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c --- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2004-01-16 11:59:46.000000000 +1100 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2004-01-16 12:05:40.000000000 +1100 @@ -3372,9 +3372,11 @@ void md_check_recovery(mddev_t *mddev) if (mddev->sb_dirty) md_update_sb(mddev); if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) && - !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_DONE, &mddev->recovery)) + !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_DONE, &mddev->recovery)) { /* resync/recovery still happening */ + clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery); goto unlock; + } if (mddev->sync_thread) { /* resync has finished, collect result */ md_unregister_thread(mddev->sync_thread); @@ -3387,11 +3389,13 @@ void md_check_recovery(mddev_t *mddev) } md_update_sb(mddev); mddev->recovery = 0; + /* flag recovery needed just to double check */ + set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery); wake_up(&resync_wait); goto unlock; } if (mddev->recovery) { - /* that's odd.. */ + /* probably just the RECOVERY_NEEDED flag */ mddev->recovery = 0; wake_up(&resync_wait); } - 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