On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0100 Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Manually added spares are not used due to fact that they not added to md configuration. > Counters are updated only. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > drivers/md/raid5.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c > index a2087c7..59c4150 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c > +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c > @@ -5592,8 +5592,10 @@ static int raid5_start_reshape(mddev_t *mddev) > } else if (rdev->raid_disk >= conf->previous_raid_disks > && !test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)) { > /* This is a spare that was manually added */ > - set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags); > - added_devices++; > + if (raid5_add_disk(mddev, rdev) == 0) { > + set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags); > + added_devices++; > + } > } > > /* When a reshape changes the number of devices, ->degraded This should not be needed. When a device is manually added, the desired slot number is written to ..../md/dev-XXX/slot This calls slot_store (in md.c) which call mddev->pers->hot_add_disk which for raid5 is raid5_add_disk. So you shouldn't need to call raid5_add_disk again. 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