Anssi Hannula wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > >>On Monday April 24, anssi.hannula@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> >>># mdadm --grow /dev/md_d1 --raid-devices=3 --backup-file backupfile >>>mdadm: Need to backup 128K of critical section.. >>>mdadm: /dev/md_d1: Cannot get array details from sysfs >>> >>>Strace shows that it's trying to access >>>"/sys/block/md_d4/md/component_size". >>> >>>Why is this? >> >> >>Because I didn't test my code properly :-( >> >>Following patch should fix it. >> > > > It appears you missed another occurrence (patch attached). > > However, [...strange problems...] The rest of my problems, including the slow speed of reconstruction were solved by reboot and I'm unable to reproduce them. Neil, thank you very much for the speedy replies :) -- Anssi Hannula - 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