> I think it is best to recover, and then reshape later. Which is what I did. The destructive badblocks ran fine overnight, with no errors on the drives that were failed out of the array. Interestingly one of the additional drives that I want to add took an additional 6 hours to run badblocks, so I need to look into that a bit. I am having a bit of an issue with the reshape tho... When I try and add one of the 2 additional devices I want to add (I'm going to add them one at a time), I get an error about the bitmap needing to be removed. mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=16 mdadm: Need to backup 93184K of critical section.. mdadm: Cannot set device shape for /dev/md0: Device or resource busy Bitmap must be removed before shape can be changed Now, the docs (and indeed several websites when I googled) suggest that you can have a bitmap present on a grow, and the help suggests that you can even change it during a grow.. If the word internal is given, then the bitmap is stored with the metadata on the array, and so is replicated on all devices. If the word none is given with --grow mode, then any bitmap that is present is removed. Is there an issue with the array, or just in my understanding and google foo? I am running on Centos 6 (2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64) with madam (mdadm - v3.2.2 - 17th June 2011) Thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> To: jahammonds prost <gmitch64@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 0:43 Subject: Re: Failed Array Rebuild advice Please On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:14:07 -0700 (PDT) jahammonds prost <gmitch64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One other question as the badblocks progresses. > > > It will then recovery both devices in parallel. > > How many additional devices can be done at the same time? I presume that I am going to have to replace the 2 failed devices before I try and grow the array by adding 3 additional drives? I so, how many additional drives can be rebuilt concurrently with a grow? Could I add 5 devices and not see too much of a performance hit? Or would it be more sensible to add them one at a time? > I think it is best to recover, and then reshape later. I cannot promise that doing them both at once will work .... it might but I have a feeling that there might be problems. Adding three additional drives at once should work well enough in terms of performance. However I would only do it if I were very very confident of the drives. If you hit bad blocks you start losing drives, and if you have 3 drives that you haven't used before, the chance of losing them all during the reshape - while still small - becomes a little too high for comfort. But if you have run heavy bad-blocks tests on them all and they appear to work, then adding 3 drives at once should be fine. 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
