Re: swidth with mdadm and RAID6

[Shailendra Tripathi <stripathi@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi Shailendra,
>
> I ran the program and it reports:
>
>         Level 6, disks=11 spare_disks=1 raid_disks=10
>
> which looks good.   I don't understand why you got:
>
>         Level 5, disks=7 spare_disks=3 raid_disks=5
>
> Why would it have 3 spare_disks?

Perhaps you are running more recent kernel than mine, and, spare_disks 
now reports only actual spares. It did appear little weired that it 
reported spare_disks as 3. get_array_info is changed in recent kernels 
and that should explain this difference.