On Saturday March 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi list! > > in short: > I created a partitioned raid6 array with 2 missing drives. Now, I want to add > a device. It fails with: > flockmock ~ # mdadm -a /dev/md_d4 /dev/sdb2 > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb2 as 4: Invalid argument
Thanks for the detailed problem report. I think the cause of the error is that /dev/sdb2 is too small. It needs to be at least 490030594 sectors. How big is it? Yes, both the kernel an mdadm should handle this case better. I have made a note to look into this. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
