From: Friedrich Lobenstock <fl@fl.priv.at>
To: Linux RAID Mailing Liste <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] count of "Spare Devices" wrong after fail/remove/add
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:46:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2E5A60.5070309@fl.priv.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15918.7346.888218.690481@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday January 21, fl@fl.priv.at wrote:
>> Active Devices : 2
>>Working Devices : 2
>> Failed Devices : 0
>> Spare Devices : 2
>>
>>
>> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
>> 0 3 1 0 active sync /dev/hda1
>> 1 22 1 1 active sync /dev/hdc1
>> UUID : d876333b:694e852b:e9a6f40f:0beb90f9
>>
>>I do wounder why I've got 2 spare drives despite the fact that I
>>did not add any. I've just got two drives in this raid1 that's it.
>
> Yes, it's probably a bug in the kernel code. The counting in the 2.4 code is very
> clumsy. I think it is benign so it wont be fixed. The code in 2.5 is
> very different and shouldn't have this problem.
Ok. Just wanted to let you know.
>>PS: Array Size : 40209024 (38.35 GiB 41.22 GB)
>>should IMHO be
>> Array Size : 40209024 (38.35 GiB 40.21 GB)
>
> I disgree. An array side of 40209024 means that many kibibytes.
> i.e. 40209024 * 1024 which is
> 41174040576 bytes.
>
Hmmm...why don't we forget about this kibibytes sh.. anyways,
it's not worth the troubles IMHO.
--
MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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2003-01-21 1:20 [BUG?] count of "Spare Devices" wrong after fail/remove/add Friedrich Lobenstock
2003-01-22 4:23 ` Neil Brown
2003-01-22 8:46 ` Friedrich Lobenstock [this message]
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