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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: mdadm 3.3 fails to kick out non fresh disk
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:04:25 +0200
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On 09/16/2013 03:56 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:

> I did give your patch "DDF: compare_super_ddf: fix sequence number
> check" a try and now mdadm is able to detect a difference between the
> 2 disks. Therefore it refuses to insert the second disk which is
> better.
> 
> However it's still not able to detect which version is the "fresher"
> like mdadm does with soft RAID1 (metadata 1.2). Therefore mdadm is not
> able to kick out the first disk if it's the outdated one.
> 
> Is that expected ?

At the moment, yes. This needs work.

Martin