On Tuesday August 7, saeed.bishara@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-disks=3 > the mdadm --grow supports saving backup file that can be used to > re-assemble the array in case of crash during the "critical section". > Any idea what is the size of file? or is there any upper limit in the > case of array of 5 drives? The file size depends on the chunk size and the number of disks. I think for 5 disks it would be less than 30 times the chunk size, so for a 128K chunk, it would be under 3 Meg. 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
