Hello. I'm trying to create internal bitmap on freshly created raid1 array on 3.2.6 kernel. What's going on and how to fix this problem? [root@setebos ~]# mdadm /dev/md3 --grow --bitmap=internal mdadm: failed to set internal bitmap. [root@setebos ~]# dmesg|tail -n 16 [10455.564598] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [10455.564601] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [10455.566566] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [10455.566570] mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! [10455.568480] md3: invalid bitmap file superblock: bad magic [10455.568483] md3: bitmap file superblock: [10455.568485] magic: 00000000 [10455.568487] version: 0 [10455.568489] uuid: 00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 [10455.568491] events: 0 [10455.568492] events cleared: 0 [10455.568494] state: 00000000 [10455.568495] chunksize: 0 B [10455.568497] daemon sleep: 0s [10455.568498] sync size: 0 KB [10455.568499] max write behind: 0 [root@setebos ~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md3 /dev/md3: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu Mar 8 13:54:16 2012 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 931760807 (888.60 GiB 954.12 GB) Used Dev Size : 931760807 (888.60 GiB 954.12 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Mar 8 18:46:11 2012 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Name : rescue:3 UUID : 390e347b:c63b1a0e:1ff4f4a5:bc51f5c6 Events : 24 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 4 0 active sync /dev/sda4 1 8 20 1 active sync /dev/sdb4 [root@setebos ~]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md3 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdb4[1] 931760807 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] 995904 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 3999117 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] 40000754 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: <none> [root@setebos ~]# -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ -- 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