Re: Spares Missing event in case of spare group?

On Friday May 1, jan.ceuleers@computer.org wrote:

Jan Ceuleers wrote:

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NeilBrown wrote:

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Yes.  Remove the "spares=1" from each line.
The sole effect of this text is to tell --monitor to expect a spare, and
to complain if no spare is found.

Many thanks. I hadn't picked that up from the manpage, so here is a 
patch for your consideration:

Reasonable patch?

Yes.  Thanks.  (And sorry for the delay :-)

NeilBrown

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diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5
index 40295be..b67bec4 100644
--- a/mdadm.conf.5
+++ b/mdadm.conf.5

@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ this is mainly for compatibility with the output of
 .TP
 .B spares=
 The value is a number of spare devices to expect the array to have.
+The sole use of this keyword and value is as follows:
 .B mdadm \-\-monitor
 will report an array if it is found to have fewer than this number of
 spares when

Thanks, Jan
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