On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:56 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hmm... I think I see the bug. It should be easy enough to fix, but I'd like > to be able to test it. > Could you please: > > mkdir /tmp/md.metadata > mdadm --dump /tmp/md.metadata /dev/md/alpha /dev/md/beta /dev/md/gamma > tar czSf /tmp/md.tgz /tmp/md.metadata > > and then send me /tmp/md.tgz, which should be tiny and contain just the > metadata from the array. I'll send that to you once tar finishes. > > [[the patch which introduced the problem has a description which starts > "This is a bit of a hack and ..." > Never accept hacks! > ]] I've reviewed and accepted a few hacks in my day as well. Hopefully the cleanup isn't too ugly. Thanks again for looking into this. -- Jonathan -- 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