Hi Neil, maybe you missed the other email, anyway please find attached the patch to fix the parsing of the component list, i.e. skipping the "spare" one. I also added a check in case the array is degraded. Thanks, pg --- cut here --- diff -uNr a/raid6check.c b/raid6check.c --- a/raid6check.c 2011-04-05 01:29:45.000000000 +0200 +++ b/raid6check.c 2011-04-05 22:51:32.587032612 +0200 @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ char **disk_name = NULL; unsigned long long *offsets = NULL; int raid_disks = 0; + int active_disks = 0; int chunk_size = 0; int layout = -1; int level = 6; @@ -242,6 +243,7 @@ GET_LEVEL| GET_LAYOUT| GET_DISKS| + GET_DEGRADED | GET_COMPONENT| GET_CHUNK| GET_DEVS| @@ -254,6 +256,12 @@ goto exitHere; } + if(info->array.failed_disks > 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s degraded array\n", prg, argv[1]); + exit_err = 8; + goto exitHere; + } + printf("layout: %d\n", info->array.layout); printf("disks: %d\n", info->array.raid_disks); printf("component size: %llu\n", info->component_size * 512); @@ -262,12 +270,13 @@ printf("\n"); comp = info->devs; - for(i = 0; i < info->array.raid_disks; i++) { + for(i = 0, active_disks = 0; active_disks < info->array.raid_disks; i++) { printf("disk: %d - offset: %llu - size: %llu - name: %s - slot: %d\n", i, comp->data_offset * 512, comp->component_size * 512, map_dev(comp->disk.major, comp->disk.minor, 0), comp->disk.raid_disk); - + if(comp->disk.raid_disk >= 0) + active_disks++; comp = comp->next; } printf("\n"); @@ -317,18 +326,20 @@ close_flag = 1; comp = info->devs; - for (i=0; i<raid_disks; i++) { + for (i=0, active_disks=0; active_disks<raid_disks; i++) { int disk_slot = comp->disk.raid_disk; - disk_name[disk_slot] = map_dev(comp->disk.major, comp->disk.minor, 0); - offsets[disk_slot] = comp->data_offset * 512; - fds[disk_slot] = open(disk_name[disk_slot], O_RDWR); - if (fds[disk_slot] < 0) { - perror(disk_name[disk_slot]); - fprintf(stderr,"%s: cannot open %s\n", prg, disk_name[disk_slot]); - exit_err = 6; - goto exitHere; + if(disk_slot >= 0) { + disk_name[disk_slot] = map_dev(comp->disk.major, comp->disk.minor, 0); + offsets[disk_slot] = comp->data_offset * 512; + fds[disk_slot] = open(disk_name[disk_slot], O_RDWR); + if (fds[disk_slot] < 0) { + perror(disk_name[disk_slot]); + fprintf(stderr,"%s: cannot open %s\n", prg, disk_name[disk_slot]); + exit_err = 6; + goto exitHere; + } + active_disks++; } - comp = comp->next; } --- cut here --- bye, -- piergiorgio -- 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