Re: Alex Samad Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:46:08PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +, "John Robinson" > said: > > On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: [snip] > > But, this has all become moot anyway. When I put the original, smaller > drives bac

Re: Alex Samad Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-12 Thread whollygoat
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +, "John Robinson" said: > On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > But anyway, I don't think that is going to matter. The issue I am > > trying to > > solve is how to de-activate the bitmap. It was suggested on the > > linux-raid > > list tha

Re: Alex Samad Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-09 Thread John Robinson
On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: But anyway, I don't think that is going to matter. The issue I am trying to solve is how to de-activate the bitmap. It was suggested on the linux-raid list that my problem may have been caused by running the grow op on an active bitmap an

Re: Alex Samad Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-08 Thread whollygoat
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:12:18 +1100, "Alex Samad" said: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:19:05PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:17:46 +1100, "Neil Brown" said: > > [snip] > > > How should I have done the grow operation if not as above? The only > > thing I