On 25 June 2012 14:52, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:07:33 +0800 Igor M Podlesny <for.poige+lsr@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> subj. Hi :) > > Please try to construct coherent email message. If you want people to read > what you write, make it easy for them. And what is so uneasy in such a little quoting sentence?, I shall ask. Those, who know where does the quote come from, are the target group, those, who doesn't — aren't. What's the problem? > Because! > > With nowhere to record device failure, you don't have any safety. Well, suppose you don't need one — due to short-term period of such an array existence which in its turn was predicated by real array failure, say, damaging superblocks (if it reminds you something). mdadm -C would create one, but you may not know which '-e' to specify. That's the reasoning beneath to have -B which wouldn't overwrite any data on disks at all so ideally fitting as a probe tool. > Feel free to send a patch. — "Feel free" to spend time digging into an area which isn't what you get paid for? At least what exactly should be patched this time, will you kindly tell us? > > 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
