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From: Shailendra Tripathi <stripathi@agami.com>
To: cousins@umit.maine.edu
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: swidth with mdadm and RAID6
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:28:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451021C0.8040701@agami.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10609191233310.2460-100000@limpet.umeoce.maine.edu>

> Hi Shailendra,
> 
> I ran the program and it reports:
> 
> 	Level 6, disks=11 spare_disks=1 raid_disks=10
> 
> which looks good.   I don't understand why you got:
> 
> 	Level 5, disks=7 spare_disks=3 raid_disks=5
> 
> Why would it have 3 spare_disks?

Perhaps you are running more recent kernel than mine, and, spare_disks 
now reports only actual spares. It did appear little weired that it 
reported spare_disks as 3. get_array_info is changed in recent kernels 
and that should explain this difference.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fc.004c4d192b2da8e03b9aca0078918430.2b2da8e5@umit.maine.edu>
2006-09-19 16:36 ` swidth with mdadm and RAID6 Steve Cousins
2006-09-19 16:58   ` Shailendra Tripathi [this message]
2006-09-19 17:13   ` Steve Cousins
     [not found] <fc.004c4d192b3470d73b9aca0029fcf469.2b349301@umit.maine.edu>
2006-09-19 17:52 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-19 19:22   ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-19 20:19     ` Shailendra Tripathi
     [not found] <fc.004c4d192b2c45a93b9aca00fc3f0f38.2b2c4b4d@umit.maine.edu>
2006-09-18 20:28 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-18 20:44 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-18 21:06   ` Shailendra Tripathi
2006-09-18 22:13   ` Shailendra Tripathi
2006-09-19  5:11     ` Timothy Shimmin
2006-09-19  6:44       ` Shailendra Tripathi
2006-09-19  7:02         ` Timothy Shimmin
     [not found] <fc.004c4d192b2a17d13b9aca00b4f73745.2b2a26d7@umit.maine.edu>
2006-09-18 15:33 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-18 18:10   ` Shailendra Tripathi
2006-09-18 18:19     ` Shailendra Tripathi
2006-09-15 21:07 Steve Cousins
2006-09-15 23:49 ` Peter Grandi
2006-09-18 14:50 ` Shailendra Tripathi

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