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From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Get rid of sparesmissing events
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:55:38 +1000 (EST)
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On Fri, July 24, 2009 4:49 am, Shane W wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Whenever my system boots, mdadm sends an email for a
> sparesmissing event on all of my raid5 arrays. The arrays
> are 5 disks in size with no spares. How do I tell mdadm
> that there are in fact no spares nor should there be?

Edit mdadm.conf.   Remove "spares=1".

NeilBrown