Support adding a spare to a live md array with external metadata.
i.e. extend the 'md/dev-XXX/slot' attribute so that you can
tell a device to fill an vacant slot in an and md array.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 214b441..002f33b 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -4607,21 +4607,27 @@
int found = 0;
int disk;
struct disk_info *p;
+ int first = 0;
+ int last = conf->raid_disks - 1;
if (mddev->degraded > conf->max_degraded)
/* no point adding a device */
return 0;
+ if (rdev->raid_disk >= 0)
+ first = last = rdev->raid_disk;
+
/*
* find the disk ... but prefer rdev->saved_raid_disk
* if possible.
*/
if (rdev->saved_raid_disk >= 0 &&
+ rdev->saved_raid_disk >= first &&
conf->disks[rdev->saved_raid_disk].rdev == NULL)
disk = rdev->saved_raid_disk;
else
- disk = 0;
- for ( ; disk < conf->raid_disks; disk++)
+ disk = first;
+ for ( ; disk <= last ; disk++)
if ((p=conf->disks + disk)->rdev == NULL) {
clear_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags);
rdev->raid_disk = disk;