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[PATCH] md: avoid backward event updates in md superblock when degraded.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:23:49 +0000 (01:23 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:01:31 +0000 (11:01 -0700)
commit84692195969b83f0ba57dc33ecf73e6c124dd186
tree6ef3e71914c83cf66330f5c0cf6cf2edebb0404a
parent45f17e0c2ae05c133a348452690de0e5fa863293
[PATCH] md: avoid backward event updates in md superblock when degraded.

If we
  - shut down a clean array,
  - restart with one (or more) drive(s) missing
  - make some changes
  - pause, so that they array gets marked 'clean',
the event count on the superblock of included drives
will be the same as that of the removed drives.
So adding the removed drive back in will cause it
to be included with no resync.

To avoid this, we only update the eventcount backwards when the array
is not degraded.  In this case there can (should) be no non-connected
drives that we can get confused with, and this is the particular case
where updating-backwards is valuable.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/md/md.c