>> 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-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html