From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:57:25 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: DDF: explain why spare_refs are ignored.
X-Git-Tag: mdadm-3.3.1~32
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2770f45a43e7b6e6501b214f7a024945265bfebe;p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git

DDF: explain why spare_refs are ignored.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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diff --git a/super-ddf.c b/super-ddf.c
index a5245d3b..fda41601 100644
--- a/super-ddf.c
+++ b/super-ddf.c
@@ -343,7 +343,10 @@ struct vd_config {
 				 * for concat I hope) */
 	be64	array_blocks;	/* blocks in array */
 	__u8	pad1[8];
-	be32	spare_refs[8];
+	be32	spare_refs[8];	/* This is used to detect missing spares.
+				 * As we don't have an interface for that
+				 * the values are ignored.
+				 */
 	__u8	cache_pol[8];
 	__u8	bg_rate;
 	__u8	pad2[3];