Hi Folks, I am creating RAID0 with bitmap support in 2.6.15 kernel. For that I have created 10GB partition each on 4 sata disks and try to created RAID0 over these 4 10 GB partitions and use one of the partitions on one of the disks for keeping the bitmap file. I have use following command for creating RAID0. # mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -bitmap=/root/mntbitmap/RAID0.bitmap -bitmap-chunk=2048 -l0 -n4 /dev/sd{a1,b1,c1,d1} But after this I am getting Segmentation fault and kernel oops as shown in dmesg. # dmesg [ 2419.835895] md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 [ 2419.836176] md0: bitmap file is out of date (0 < 1) -- forcing full recovery [ 2419.836191] ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] --------- [ 2419.881887] Kernel BUG at drivers/md/bitmap.c:1592 [ 2419.913287] invalid operand: 0000 [1] SMP [ 2419.940119] CPU 1 [ 2419.953249] Modules linked in: raid0 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 dm_mirror button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd i2c_i801 i2c_core floppy sd_mod ata_piix libata scsi_mod e1000 nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc [ 2420.073140] Pid: 3400, comm: mdadm Not tainted 2.6.15 #2 [ 2420.107964] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802c4d51>] <ffffffff802c4d51>{bitmap_create+1340} [ 2420.155921] RSP: 0018:ffff810114e73a48 EFLAGS: 00010247 [ 2420.191887] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff810117402c00 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 2420.238702] RDX: 0000000000000fff RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffffffff804263a0 [ 2420.285516] RBP: ffff810114e73b28 R08: ffffffff804263b8 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 2420.332330] R10: 0000000100000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff810115110200 [ 2420.379143] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000200000 [ 2420.425958] FS: 00002aaaaaab4b00(0000) GS:ffffffff80528880(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 2420.479051] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 2420.516732] CR2: 0000003eb298f070 CR3: 0000000114060000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 2420.563546] Process mdadm (pid: 3400, threadinfo ffff810114e72000, task ffff81011516a880) [ 2420.617208] Stack: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000000fc [ 2420.668591] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff810117402c00 0000000000000000 [ 2420.721113] 0000000000000000 0000000000000005 [ 2420.754226] Call Trace:<ffffffff802bea60>{md_probe+177} <ffffffff802bef70>{do_md_run+1035} [ 2420.808462] <ffffffff802be037>{bind_rdev_to_array+402} <ffffffff802c109a>{md_ioctl+5242} [ 2420.865551] <ffffffff801594c6>{__pagevec_free+46} <ffffffff80160533>{release_pages+376} [ 2420.922072] <ffffffff801558a7>{find_get_pages+90} <ffffffff801eec8f>{blkdev_driver_ioctl+91} [ 2420.981445] <ffffffff801ef375>{blkdev_ioctl+1745} <ffffffff801f887b>{kobject_put+25} [ 2421.036252] <ffffffff8017f3bf>{bdev_destroy_inode+31} <ffffffff80190920>{destroy_inode+79} [ 2421.094484] <ffffffff8019206b>{generic_delete_inode+329} <ffffffff80190f4e>{iput+124} [ 2421.149862] <ffffffff8017f721>{bdput+13} <ffffffff8017fc12>{blkdev_put+411} [ 2421.199530] <ffffffff8018018f>{block_ioctl+27} <ffffffff8018a65a>{do_ioctl+46} [ 2421.250912] <ffffffff8018a913>{vfs_ioctl+623} <ffffffff8018a982>{sys_ioctl+93} [ 2421.302294] <ffffffff8010d976>{system_call+126} [ 2421.337689] [ 2421.337690] Code: 0f 0b 68 4c d2 37 80 c2 38 06 49 89 4c 24 38 48 8b 55 80 be [ 2421.394779] RIP <ffffffff802c4d51>{bitmap_create+1340} RSP <ffff810114e73a48> [ 2421.441946] If I have to create RAID0 with bitmap support, what kind of mdadm configuration I will have to use? Thanks, Yogesh - 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