[ reviving old thread given the recent patch from Adam [1]] On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:55 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yeah, the changelog is backwards, and this breaks tests/08imsm-overlap >> because it does not honor IMSM_NO_PLATFORM. How about the attached? > > Better (though text/plain attachments are preferred over > application/octet-stream....) Yeah, gmail picked that unfortunately... need to get my evolution setup going again. > However there still seems to be confusion over num_disks versus num_members. > > You compare num_disks to raiddisks but my understanding is that num_disks can > include spares while raiddisks definitely doesn't. Am I confused or are you? Unfortunately the metadata has no knowledge of how many spares there should be. num_disks is always the current container membership as and spare disks have a metadata record with num_disks == 1. [1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=132387896006974&w=2 -- 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
