Re: problem changing raid level with Ubuntu 10.04 / 2.6.32 / mdadm 3.1.1

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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
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