From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k8JGx0aG007093 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:59:01 -0700 Received: from ext.agami.com (64.221.212.177.ptr.us.xo.net [64.221.212.177]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 76E44457987 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agami.com ([192.168.168.132]) by ext.agami.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id k8JGwH2c023378 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:58:21 -0700 Received: from mx1.agami.com (mx1.agami.com [10.123.10.30]) by agami.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8JGwC9v002380 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:58:12 -0700 Message-ID: <451021C0.8040701@agami.com> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:28:40 +0530 From: Shailendra Tripathi MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: swidth with mdadm and RAID6 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: cousins@umit.maine.edu Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com > 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.