Re: Spares Missing event in case of spare group?

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Friday May 1, jan.ceuleers@computer.org wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  Thanks.  (And sorry for the delay :-)

NeilBrown

> 
> > 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
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