On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:14:51 +0200 Nagilum <nagilum@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ----- Message from mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------- > > >> I am more interested to know why it kicked off a reshape that would > >> leave the array in a degraded state without a warning and > >> needing a '--force' are you sure there wasn't capacity to 'grow' anyway? > > > > Positive. I had no spare of any kind and mdstat was showing all disks > > were in use. > > Yep, a warning/safety net would be good. At the moment mdadm assumes > you know what you're doing. > I've added this to my list of possible enhancements for mdadm-3.2 Thanks, 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