Bug#763080: Fails to assemble a reshaping raid after disk hickup

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Package: mdadm
Version: 3.3-2
Followup-For: Bug #763080

Hi,

attached a patch to make --force work with my reshaping array. The
problem seems to be that load_devices fills in the best array only for
every second slot (and makes it 4 times as big as needed):

mdadm: best[0] = 0
mdadm: best[1] = -1
mdadm: best[2] = 1
mdadm: best[3] = -1
mdadm: best[4] = 2
mdadm: best[5] = -1
mdadm: best[6] = 3
mdadm: best[7] = -1
mdadm: best[8] = 4
mdadm: best[9] = -1
mdadm: best[10] = 5
mdadm: best[11] = -1
mdadm: best[12] = -1
mdadm: best[13] = -1
mdadm: best[14] = -1
mdadm: best[15] = -1
mdadm: best[16] = -1
mdadm: best[17] = -1
mdadm: best[18] = -1
mdadm: best[19] = -1

And then when force_array only checks up to the number of disks in the
array it misses half of them. In my case exactly those it should be
forcing.

MfG
	Goswin

-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mdadm depends on:
ii  debconf      1.5.53
ii  initscripts  2.88dsf-53
ii  libc6        2.19-1
ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian12
ii  makedev      2.3.1-93
ii  udev         204-10

Versions of packages mdadm recommends:
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-transport-agent]  4.82-8
ii  module-init-tools                          16-2

mdadm suggests no packages.

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