On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:01:07 -0700 Shane W <shane-kernel@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to convert a 5 disk raid5 array to a 6 disk > raid6 but am having no luck. I first added the 6th disk as > a spare then > mdadm --grow /dev/md3 --level 6 > mdadm level of /dev/md3 changed to raid6 > mdadm: /dev/md3: Something wrong - reshape aborted > mdadm: aborting level change > > dmesg doesn't show an error and neither does mdadm beyond > "something wrong". Is this supported? > > mdadm 3.1.1 Linux 2.6.32.8 x86_64. > That shouldn't happen.... How big is your array? How many devices? Chunksize? etc. Maybe just the output of mdadm -D /dev/md3 would do. 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
