Kai Krakow posted on Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:15:13 +0200 as excerpted: > Your argument would be less important if it did copy-back, tho... ;-)
FWIW, I completely misunderstood your description of copy-back in my original reply, and didn't realize what you meant (and thus my mistaken understanding) until I read some of the other replies today. What I /thought/ you meant was some totally nonsense/WTF idea of keeping the newly substituted hot-spare in place, and taking the newly vacated "defective" device and putting it back in the the hot-spare list. That rightly seemed stupid to me (it's a device just replaced as defective, now you're putting it back as a hot-spare? WTF?), but that's how I read what you were asking for and saying that other solutions did, so... Of course today when I read the other replies and realized what you were /actually/ describing, returning the hot-spare to hot-spare status after physically replacing the actually failed drive with a new one and logically replacing the hot-spare with it in the filesystem, thereby making the hot-spare a spare once again, my reaction was "DUH!! NOW it makes sense!" But I was just going to let it go and go hide my original misunderstanding in a hole somewhere. But now you replied to my reply, so I figured I would reply back, explaining what on earth I was thinking when I wrote it, and why it must have seemed rather out of left field and didn't make much sense -- because what I was thinking you were suggesting /didn't/ make sense, but of course that's because I totally misunderstood what you were suggesting. So now my very-much-former misunderstanding is out of the hole and posted for everyone to see and have a good laugh at, and I'm much the wiser on what copy-back actually entails. =:^) Tho it seems I was correct in the one aspect, currently ENotImplemented, even if my idea of what you were asking to be implemented was totally and completely off-the-wall wrong. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
