On Tuesday June 12, T_Wolf@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I've got a SLES9 SP3 running and I've been quite happy with it so far. > > Recently, I've created a 4 disk spanning RAID-5 on our company > server. Runs quite nice and we're happy with that too. I created > that RAID using the SLES mdadm (1.4 I believe) package. > > After discovering that there is a much newer mdadm out here (2.6.1), > I decided to upgrade. It went just fine. Raid still running at 120 > MB/sec. > > After adding a disk to the raid, which went fine as well...... BUT: > > The added disk /dev/sda1 shows up in /proc/mdstat, but does not have > the "spare (s)" flag. > > Plus... the --grow doesn't work... > > I get the: mdadm: /dev/md0: Cannot get array details from sysfs > error which has been discussed before. Can it be that this is caused > by the 2.6.5-7.2xx Kernel? Any ideas? Yes. All of your issues are caused by using a 2.6.5 based kernel. However even upgrading to SLES10 would not get you raid5-grow. That came a little later. You would need to compile a mainline kernel or wait for SLES11. NeilBrown - 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
