On Tuesday May 12, garth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sunday May 10, I (garth@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > I'm having a problem getting a spare partition moved to the right RAID > group > > after a failure...All superblocks involved are version 1.2. > > Neil Brown replied: > > > This would be because no one has tried the spare-group feature with > > 1.x metadata yet...The following patch should make it work...This patch > > is against 2.6.9, though it should apply to any reasonably recent 2.x > mdadm. > > Thanks for the response, Neil. The patch works great; now I get Fail, > MoveSpare, and Rebuild events in sequence with no errors. /proc/mdstat shows > that the appropriate spare was moved into the failed array and that the > array is being rebuilt onto it. Excellent. Thanks for testing and reporting. > > I patched the 2.6.7.1 tree, which was Jaunty's default for "apt-get source > mdadm" (and the same version included in the binary package). Manage.c and > Monitor.c already matched the "after" state of your patch, so the only code > that actually changed was the one-liners in super0.c and super1.c. That is impossible. I had only just written that patch, so there is no way the 'after' bit could possibly be in Jaunty. Maybe something got confused when you ran patch.... doesn't really matter - it works, and that is the important thing. NeilBrown -- 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
