Re: Accidental grow before add

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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
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