Re: Spares Missing event in case of spare group?

[Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>]

Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> NeilBrown wrote:
>> Yes.  Remove the "spares=1" from each line.
>> The sole effect of this text is to tell --monitor to expect a spare, and
>> to complain if no spare is found.
> 
> Many thanks. I hadn't picked that up from the manpage, so here is a 
> patch for your consideration:

Reasonable patch?

> diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5
> index 40295be..b67bec4 100644
> --- a/mdadm.conf.5
> +++ b/mdadm.conf.5
> @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ this is mainly for compatibility with the output of
>  .TP
>  .B spares=
>  The value is a number of spare devices to expect the array to have.
> +The sole use of this keyword and value is as follows:
>  .B mdadm \-\-monitor
>  will report an array if it is found to have fewer than this number of
>  spares when

Thanks, Jan