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    [PATCH] md: Make spare handling simple ... personalities know less · acd8a264
    Neil Brown authored
    1/ Personalities only know about raid_disks devices.
       Some might be not in_sync and so cannot be read from,
       but must be written to.
    	- change MD_SB_DISKS to ->raid_disks
    	- add tests for .write_only
    
    2/ rdev->raid_disk is now -1 for spares.  desc_nr is maintained
       by analyse_sbs and sync_sbs.
    
    3/ spare_inactive method is subsumed into hot_remove_disk
       spare_writable is subsumed into hot_add_disk.
       hot_add_disk decides which slot a new device will hold.
    
    4/ spare_active now finds all non-in_sync devices and marks them
       in_sync.
    
    5/ faulty devices are removed by the md recovery thread as soon
       as they are idle.  Any spares that are available are then added.
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