On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Jeremy Knickerbocker wrote:
jaykae-serv:~# mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --level=6 --raid-disk=8
mdadm level of /dev/md1 changed to raid6
mdadm: Need to backup 1501199875784021K of critical section..
mdadm: /dev/md1: Something wrong - reshape aborted
mdadm: aborting level change
What kernel are you running? If less than 2.6.32, it won't support this.
Do you have bitmap enabled? (I don't know how that shows up in the output
you provided, please "cat /proc/mdstat" as well). If you have bitmap
enabled, please remove it first.
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