Re: modifying degraded raid 1 then re-adding other members is bad

On Wednesday August 9, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de wrote:

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Why we're updating it BACKWARD in the first place?

To avoid writing to spares when it isn't needed - some people want
their spare drives to go to sleep.

That sounds a little dangerous. What if it decrements below 0?

It cannot.
md  decrements the event count only on a dirty->clean transition, and
only if it had previously incremented the count on a clean->dirty
transition.  So it can never go below what it was when the array was
assembled.

NeilBrown