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| author | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-08-27 21:59:59 -0500 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-08-27 21:59:59 -0500 |
| commit | 8ce7a9c159c8c4eb480f0a65c6af753dbf9a1a70 (patch) | |
| tree | be59573c0af3617d0cd8a7d61f0ed119e58b1156 /drivers/md/md.c | |
| parent | d2afb3ae04e36dbc6e9eb2d8bd54406ff7b6b3bd (diff) | |
| parent | 01da5fd83d6b2c5e36b77539f6cbdd8f49849225 (diff) | |
Merge ../linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/md.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index b6d16022a53..8dbab2ef388 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -1597,6 +1597,19 @@ void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev) repeat: spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock); + + if (mddev->degraded && mddev->sb_dirty == 3) + /* If the array is degraded, then skipping spares is both + * dangerous and fairly pointless. + * Dangerous because a device that was removed from the array + * might have a event_count that still looks up-to-date, + * so it can be re-added without a resync. + * Pointless because if there are any spares to skip, + * then a recovery will happen and soon that array won't + * be degraded any more and the spare can go back to sleep then. + */ + mddev->sb_dirty = 1; + sync_req = mddev->in_sync; mddev->utime = get_seconds(); if (mddev->sb_dirty == 3) |