On Tue, October 20, 2009 12:53 am, Guy Martin wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Same result with the latest commit after a reboot. > > Maybe the problem comes from the fact that I first try to assemble > the array without providing a backup file ? That should not cause a problem - mdadm will simply fail in that case and leave you to do it 'right'. I assume it is the same backup file from before - not a file in /tmp or something like that? > > For reference I did the following : > mdadm --create /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 3 /dev/sd[bdf]1 > mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sde1 > [wait for the raid 5 to rebuild] > mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --backup-file backup -l 6 -n 4 > [wait a few hours] > reboot > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bdef]1 > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sd[bdef]1 --backup-file backup > > Any other output you'd need ? In general adding '-v' to '--assemble' is a good idea, but I doubt it would give anything particularly useful in this case. I'll try to reproduce your result and let you know how I go. Thanks, NeilBrown > > Guy > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:14:06 +1100 > "NeilBrown" <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Thanks for doing this testing! >> >> > Any idea how to resolve this issue ? >> >> Try pulling the very latest from my git repo. I was doing some >> testing like this just last week and found a number of issues which I >> think I have fixed. >> >> 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
