> I had to reboot one of my Linux systems a few days ago (November 2) > because something was a little unstable, although RAID was AFAIK working > just fine. This is not an online production system, so rather than try to > run down the culprit, I just rebooted the box. Everything seemed to come > back up just fine, so I really didn't spend too much time checking > everything out. Today one of the drives in the RAID5 array was kicked > out, > so I removed it and added it back. It wasn't until I added the drive back > that I noticed the array no longer had a write-intent bitmap. The array > had > an external bitmap, but it is no longer there, and I presume for some > reason > it was not registered when the box rebooted. I don't see anything which Oh, hey, I just looked at one of my other Linux systems which was shut down during a protracted power outage 16 days ago, and it, too, is missing its bitmap, presumably since it was brought back up. -- 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
