On Thursday July 31, leituras@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi. > > I have a setup with SLES 10 SP2 installed in 1 DELL PowerEdge 2950 attached > to 5 DELL MD1000 SAS storages (5 TB each). > > I used mdadm to make a single RAID unit of my storages. I'm using RAID 5 to > prevent data loss if one of the storages fail. > > I had a storage fail. I removed the faulty storage (mdadm /dev/md0 -r > /dev/sdb1) and restarted the system to replace this storage with a good one. > > > The new storage is an exact copy of the faulty one (including internal > HD's). > > When I tried to add the new storage to my degraded array ( mdadm /dev/md0 -a > /dev/sdX1), I get the following message: /dev/sdX: not large enough to join > array. > > I used the same steps in another site (with the same storages, but with only > 500 GB each) and it worked all right. > > Any suggestions? Yes. Upgrade :-) This looks like the bug that was fixed in SLES10-SP2 by an update on May 9th this year. The relevant bugzilla is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368704 There is a patch linked in there. If you cannot find an upgrade, you could just compile your own mdadm from the latest source. 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
