Thanks Bryan, I Appreciate it. I'll try with write intent when I get a chance (I'm still struggeling with md). My sdb disk got kicked out a second time in perhaps two weeks. I have a feeling it's the sdb that gets kicked most of the time. md0 & md1 got the sdb kicked but md1 didn't. Any reasons why a disk gets kicked, or perhaps why it gets unclean and thus kicked? md2 : active raid5 sdc3[3] sda3[0] 5706313728 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [U_U] md0 : active raid1 sdc1[2] sda1[0] 307188 blocks super 1.0 [3/2] [U_U] md1 : active raid5 sdb2[4] sdc2[3] sda2[0] 153596928 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk --john 2012/3/11 Bryan Mesich <bryan.mesich@xxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 07:55:10PM +0100, John Obaterspok wrote: >> Hello, >> >> mdadm --grow /dev/md2 --bitmap=internal >> mdadm: failed to set internal bitmap. >> >> I then tried it on md1 and this crashed my machine. (bitmap_endwrite >> <- handle_stripe) >> hmm. >> >> I don't know what to do. > > This looks like a bug that Neil commented about last week (I > deleted the thread, so can't directly forward it to you). > The thread I'm referring to can be found here: > > http://marc.info/?t=133122326800004&r=1&w=2 > > Subject of the thread is: "invalid bitmap file superblock: bad > magic". Neil indicated that the fix in included in the following > commit: > > http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=6ef89052d85b8137b8a7100f761d896ae6f61001 > > > Bryan -- 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