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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2013-02-21 15:50:07 +1100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2013-02-26 11:58:44 +1100
commitf96c9f305c24a0d4a075e2c75aa6b417aa238687 (patch)
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md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
Mentioning "bad disk number -1" exposes irrelevant internal detail. Just say they are inactive and must be removed. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/raid0.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid0.c b/drivers/md/raid0.c
index d9babda582b9..0505452de8d6 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid0.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid0.c
@@ -175,7 +175,13 @@ static int create_strip_zones(struct mddev *mddev, struct r0conf **private_conf)
rdev1->new_raid_disk = j;
}
- if (j < 0 || j >= mddev->raid_disks) {
+ if (j < 0) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR
+ "md/raid0:%s: remove inactive devices before converting to RAID0\n",
+ mdname(mddev));
+ goto abort;
+ }
+ if (j >= mddev->raid_disks) {
printk(KERN_ERR "md/raid0:%s: bad disk number %d - "
"aborting!\n", mdname(mddev), j);
goto abort;