Dear Neil, hi everyone else. I've been reading a lot about the mdadm tools lately, and I believe that it is possible, but I haven't found the right documentation yet. Is it possible to re-mount the RAID I have from another Linux installation? Do I need more than the 'mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf' info saved to another location (so I can re-import it)? Regards, Thorsten > 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 -- Contact me on ICQ: 7656468 skype://sysfried Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer - 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
