You also need to use a file system resizing tool. Like resize2fs for instance. http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/resize2fs8.html Good luck! -- Henrik Holst Original message > I am putting together a four disk array. I want to know if it can be > extended so I am building a 3-disk array and then growing it to 4. > > I spent the last week attempting to build and test the array and I have > a problem: the array is thrashed by raidreconf. I need to know if this > is a hardware problem (TX4?), a raidreconf problem or a kernel issue. > > It is now becoming urgent for me to sort this out, any hints will be > appreciated. > > If this is a TX4 issue, which SATA controllers (4-way) are known to be > supported and good on Linux? > > I have a test script that does this: > build a 3-disk raid-5 > mkfs.ext3 > copy data in > 200+GB > fsck > OK > raidreconf > 3->4 disks > fsck > failed > > The disks are 320GB SATA "WDC WD3200JD-00K Rev: 08.0". Kernel 2.6.13 > vanilla. Controller is Promise SATAII150 TX4. > > The test takes about 16h to complete. > > The rebuild messages: > ==================== > Sat Sep 10 01:19:07 EST 2005 mdbuild: checking the file system > ==================================== > /dev/md0: 4136/610560 files (2.7% non-contiguous), 55952642/156285568 blocks > Sat Sep 10 01:25:51 EST 2005 mdbuild: reconfiguring RAID > ==================================== > Parsing /etc/raidtab.old > Parsing /etc/raidtab.new > Old raid-disk 0 has 1220981 chunks, 312571136 blocks > Old raid-disk 1 has 1220981 chunks, 312571136 blocks > Old raid-disk 2 has 1220981 chunks, 312571136 blocks > New raid-disk 0 has 1220981 chunks, 312571136 blocks > New raid-disk 1 has 1220981 chunks, 312571136 blocks > New raid-disk 2 has 1220981 chunks, 312571136 blocks > New raid-disk 3 has 1220981 chunks, 312571136 blocks > Using 256 Kbyte blocks to move from 256 Kbyte chunks to 256 Kbyte chunks. > Detected 1035336 KB of physical memory in system > A maximum of 1181 outstanding requests is allowed > Working with device /dev/md0 > Size of old array: 1875427344 blocks, Size of new array: 2500569792 blocks > --------------------------------------------------- > I will grow your old device /dev/md0 of 2441962 blocks > to a new device /dev/md0 of 3662943 blocks > using a block-size of 256 KB > Is this what you want? (yes/no): yes > Converting 2441962 block device to 3662943 block device > Allocated free block map for 3 disks > 4 unique disks detected. > Working (/) [02441962/02441962] [############################################] > Source drained, flushing sink. > Reconfiguration succeeded, will update superblocks... > Maximum friend-freeing depth: 8 > Total wishes hooked: 2441962 > Maximum wishes hooked: 1181 > Total gifts hooked: 2441962 > Maximum gifts hooked: 991 > Congratulations, your array has been reconfigured, > and no errors seem to have occured. > Updating superblocks... > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk 0: /dev/sda, 312571224kB, raid superblock at 312571136kB > disk 1: /dev/sdb, 312571224kB, raid superblock at 312571136kB > disk 2: /dev/sdc, 312571224kB, raid superblock at 312571136kB > disk 3: /dev/sdd, 312571224kB, raid superblock at 312571136kB > Array is updated with kernel. > Disks re-inserted in array... Hold on while starting the array... > Sat Sep 10 10:30:19 EST 2005 mdbuild: checking the file system > ==================================== > /dev/md0: Inode 129 is in use, but has dtime set. FIXED. > /dev/md0: Inode 129 has imagic flag set. > > /dev/md0: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > (i.e., without -a or -p options) > > > Inspecting the fs shows real corruption. It does not even look like full > bad blocks but specific entries are bad. The some directories are completely > missing and I (naturally) get errors reading the fs (mounted with errors). > > /data3/mythtv/tv_grab_au: > ======================== > total 2968465682 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:56 08092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:56 09092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:59 10092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:57 11092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:58 12092005 > ?--xrws--T 31794 3359396242 982138100 1048034695 Oct 9 1972 13092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:59 14092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 9 04:52 15092005 > srw-----w- 26765 936675348 473714967 2355711621 Oct 5 1976 16092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:54 26082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:54 27082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:55 28082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:55 29082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 24 04:57 30082005 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 362153 Nov 5 2004 guide.xml > > The original has: > ================ > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:56 09092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:57 10092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:57 11092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:58 12092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 10 04:58 13092005 <<<<< > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 8 04:59 14092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 9 04:52 15092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 10 05:00 16092005 <<<<< > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Sep 10 05:00 17092005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:54 26082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:54 27082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:55 28082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 26 04:55 29082005 > drwxr-sr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 8192 Aug 24 04:57 30082005 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 362153 Nov 5 2004 guide.xml > > -- > Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/> > attach .zip as .dat > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
