Re: possible bug in md

Hi Neil,

On 07/04/11 20:24, NeilBrown wrote:

This is correct in that the spare should be removed from the array as there
is nothing else useful that can be done.  It is possibly not ideal in that
the spare gets marked as 'faulty' where it isn't really.

I agree that MD is doing the right thing in stopping the sync, since there is nothing else that can be done. What it should say in the kernel log in this case (in my opinion anyway) is something like:

raid10: Disk failure on sda, sync stopped, sdb marked faulty.

instead of:

raid10: Disk failure on sdb, disabling device.

only because /dev/sdb did not actually fail! I agree this is not terribly important, I was reporting only for correctness, and I know you're busy :).

Many thanks,
Iordan