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From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid1: abort resync if there are no spare drives
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:47:09 -0500
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Neil Brown wrote:
 
>  As far as I can see (without looking very deeply) the only problem is
>  that the resync process continues on when there is no point doing so,
>  thus wasting time.

Yes, that's right. The pointless continuance of the resync is the
problem. The bad device does get marked as "failed", so there is no
problem with that.

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Paul