Hi Neil, do you think the below patch sounds reasonable? Thanks, Alex. >From 98adc21bba9cf5d77214d665f2218fd7de2623b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Lyakas <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 13:04:24 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Don't consider disks with a valid recovery offset as candidates for bumping up event count. When we are looking for a candidate disk to bump up the event count, we consider only disks that have recovery_start==MaxSector. However, after we find one such disk, we agree to accept more disks having same event count, regardless of their recovery_start. Be consistent and don't accept disks with a valid recovery_start at all. diff --git a/Assemble.c b/Assemble.c index 080993d..227d66f 100644 --- a/Assemble.c +++ b/Assemble.c @@ -1069,6 +1069,7 @@ int Assemble(struct supertype *st, char *mddev, int j = best[i]; if (j >= 0 && !devices[j].uptodate && + devices[j].i.recovery_start == MaxSector && devices[j].i.events == current_events) { chosen_drive = j; goto add_another; -- 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