On Sat, April 11, 2009 6:23 pm, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > Hi again, > > I answer to myself. > > It seems that the array needs to be assembled > with "--update devicesize", so that later the > "--grow --size=max" could really work. I love it when people find out answers by themselves - it shows the documentation isn't completely worthless :-) > > It also seems that "--update" works only with > "--assemble". > Is there any way to update the device size "live", > i.e. without stopping and re-assembling the array? > (and without failing/removing/adding components?). I think so, but mdadm cannot do it for you (yet). If you for i in /sys/block/mdX/md/dev-*/size do echo 0 > $i done it will have much the same effect as --assemble --update devicesize Then you can --grow --size=max 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
