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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2010-06-17 17:48:26 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2010-06-24 13:36:04 +1000
commit3424bf6a772cff606fc4bc24a3639c937afb547f (patch)
treebe299de834e0f939d19665efec4cacadd74c4914 /drivers/staging
parent2f115882499f3e5eca33d1df07b8876cc752a1ff (diff)
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md/raid5: don't include 'spare' drives when reshaping to fewer devices.
There are few situations where it would make any sense to add a spare when reducing the number of devices in an array, but it is conceivable: A 6 drive RAID6 with two missing devices could be reshaped to a 5 drive RAID6, and a spare could become available just in time for the reshape, but not early enough to have been recovered first. 'freezing' recovery can make this easy to do without any races. However doing such a thing is a bad idea. md will not record the partially-recovered state of the 'spare' and when the reshape finished it will think that the spare is still spare. Easiest way to avoid this confusion is to simply disallow it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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