On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:12:32 +0100 (CET) Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Any reason this doesn't work with a bitmap, and if it doesn't, then > perhaps this should be documented somewhere or at least mdadm should throw > an error message? > It doesn't work with a bitmap because md is not able to resize the bitmap which might be needed when resizing an array. The next release of mdadm should provide a more helpful message. I'll look in to ways of getting md to resize the bitmap. 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