On Thursday September 17, aristizb@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > After have stopped a raid1, I try to assemble it with one device and > its bitmap; but I received the following error message: > > $mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md2003 --bitmap=/tmp/md2003bm > /dev/syntropy21/ian_dvol_200_0_1 > > mdadm: SET_BITMAP_FILE failed. > > After 5 minutes I retry the command and it succeeds, assembling the > raid without any problems. > > > It looks like mdadm cannot use the file I specified for the external > bitmap, but this file is not in use by any other raid. Is there any > explanation on why assemble could fail to create the raid with the > specified bitmap? If it failed once and then succeeded later it is most like that md thought the file was already in use in some way. If so there should be a message in the kernel logs saying something like: md2003: error: bitmap file is already in use Was there such a message? NeilBrown > > > Thank you. > > > > Juan. > -- > 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 -- 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
