From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [md PATCH 03/36] md: don't allow arrays to contain devices with bad blocks.
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:47:38 +0900
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NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> writes:

> As no personality understand bad block lists yet, we must
> reject any device that is known to contain bad blocks.
> As the personalities get taught, these tests can be removed.
>
> This only applies to raid1/raid5/raid10.
> For linear/raid0/multipath/faulty the whole concept of bad blocks
> doesn't mean anything so there is no point adding the checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>