Neil Brown wrote:
On Sunday November 12, dledford@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
So, assuming that they are persistent, just recreate the arrays in place
as version 1.0 superblocks with internal bitmap. I did that exact thing
on my FC6 machine I was testing with (raid1, not raid5, but no biggie
there) and it worked fine. The detailed list of instructions:
You can add a bitmap to an array while it is active.
mdadm --grow --bitmap=internal /dev/mdX
Thank you!!! Works like a charm!
(Providing the kernel is new enough - I'm not sure when that went in,
but it was a while ago).
The latest FC6 kernel is 2.6.18 something, should be okay.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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