>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Is there anyway I can interrupt the command I used: >> >> mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --size=##### >> >> which I know now I should have used the --size=max paramter instead, >> but it wasn't in the man page or the online help. Oh well... >> >> I tried removing the bitmap with: >> >> mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --bitmap=none >> >> but of course it won't let me do that. Would I have to hot-fail one >> of my disks to interrupt the re-sync, so I can remove the bitmap, so I >> can then grow the RAID1 to the max volume size? Bill> I think you could interrupt it by echoing 'idle' to the Bill> sync_action, but I personally wouldn't do that, since there are Bill> indications of some problem already, and doing another unusual Bill> thing is not prudent. Doing an 'echo idle > sync_action' was not a good idea. The system was not happy with me. This I consider to be a bug, since the MD system should just ignore commands it can't handle at a point. So you'd need to do the echo first, then a cat to check the status. Bill> I doubt you problems are caused by specifying the size rather Bill> than using "max," unless you got it wrong, in which case I Bill> wouldn't guess what is going to happen. It looks like it's a known issue with bitmaps that Neil hasn't fixed yet. Oh well. Now my problems seem to be bad blocks on the new disk. Sigh... *grin* But I'm now running on the new disks ok and enjoying the extra disk space. John - 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
