On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:59:59 +0100 Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi, > > I have seen this come up on the list a couple of times, and also had > bugs filed over it, since this used to 'work'. Making the printed > error message a little more explicit should hopefully make it clearer > why this is being rejected. > > Thoughts? While I'm always happy to make the error messages more helpful, I don't think this one does :-( The reason for the change was that people seemed to often use "--add" when what they really wanted was "--re-add". --add will try --re-add first, but it if that doesn't succeed it would do the plain add and destroy the metadata. So I introduced the requirement that if you want to destroy metadata, you need to do it explicitly (and I know that won't stop people, but hopefully it will slow them down). Also, this is not at all specific to raid1 - it applies equally to raid4/5/6/10. NeilBrown
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