> Why do you refuse to freeze the array if it's not "idle"? What will > happen is that current recover/resync will abort, drives will be > added, and on unfreezing, array will resume (restart?) recovery with > all drives. If array was resyncing, however, it will start recovering > the newly added drives, because kernel prefers recovery over resync > (as we discussed earlier). Indeed, since dea3786ae2cf74ecb0087d1bea1aa04e9091ad5c, I see that you agree to freeze the array also in case it is recovering. Alex. -- 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