On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:12 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:06:23 -0400 Tobias McNulty <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Tobias McNulty <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:06 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:41:46 -0500 Tobias McNulty <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Now I see this in /etc/mdstat: > > > > > > > > > > md0 : active raid6 sdf[0] sdg[5](S) sdh[4] sdc[3] sdd[2] sde[1] > > > > > 5860543488 blocks super 0.91 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] > > > > > [=>...................] reshape = 9.9% (193691648/1953514496) > > > > > finish=97156886.4min speed=0K/sec > > > > > > > > > > Is the 0K/sec something I need to worry about? > > > > > > > > Maybe. If the stays at 0K/sec and the 9.9% stays at 9.9%, then yes. It is > > > > something to worry about. > > > > > > It seems like it was another buggy SATA HBA?? I moved everything back > > > to the on-board SATA ports (1 of the 2 drives in the OS RAID1 device > > > and the 5 non-spare devices in the RAID6 -> RAID5 device) and it's > > > happily reshaping again (even without the MDADM_GROW_ALLOW_OLD magic > > > this time): > > > > > > md0 : active raid6 sda[0] sde[4] sdd[3] sdc[2] sdb[1] > > > 5860543488 blocks super 0.91 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] > > > [==>..................] reshape = 10.0% (196960192/1953514496) > > > finish=11376.9min speed=2572K/sec > > > > > > Is it really possible that I had two buggy SATA cards, from different > > > manufacturers? Perhaps the motherboard is at fault? Or am I missing > > > something very basic about connecting SATA drives to something other > > > than the on-board ports? > > > > > > Currently I'm using a SuperMicro X7SPA-HF [1] motherboard with a > > > AOC-SASLP-MV8 [2] HBA, and the machine is running Debian squeeze > > > (2.6.32-5-amd64). > > > > > > Tobias > > > > > > [1] http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y > > > [2] http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SASLP-MV8.cfm > > > > So, after figuring out the hardware issues, the reshape appears to > > have completed successfully (hurray!), but /proc/mdstat still says > > that the array is level 6. Is there another command I have to run to > > put the finishing touches on the conversion? > > > > md0 : active raid6 sda[0] sde[4] sdd[3] sdc[2] sdb[1] > > 5860543488 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 18 [5/5] [UUUUU] > > > > Just > mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --level=5 > > should complete instantly. (assuming I'm correct in thinking that you want > this to be a raid5 array - I don't really remember the details anymore :-) Bingo! Thanks. md0 : active raid5 sda[0] sde[4](S) sdd[3] sdc[2] sdb[1] 5860543488 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] And I even ended up with a spare disk (wasn't sure how that part was going to work). Do you always have to run that command twice, or only if the reshape is interrupted? At least, I thought that was the same command I ran originally to kick it off. Thanks again. Tobias -- Tobias McNulty, Managing Partner Caktus Consulting Group, LLC http://www.caktusgroup.com -- 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
