On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: <SNIP> > A couple of follow-up questions if anyone has info & time to answer. > My kernel is 3.8.13-gentoo. I'm using mdadm-3.1.4. > > I'm currently doing the recovery step on the 5th of 5 drives so the > next step is the one that will grow the RAID: > > mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --size=max > > 1) With regards to growing the array, a long time ago I remember > growing a RAID and getting burned by a bug that didn't like the ending > sector number. Something about the size of the RAID not being > divisible by chunk size or something like that. At that time I was not > using RAID6. Are there any known problems like that at this time for > RAID6? > > 2) Out of curiosity, is it the grow command that creates the ext4 > filesystem on the new portion of the RAID or is there some step not > shown at the link able where I need to do some file system in this > process? Or possibly the mdadm --add step? On this part I see it's the resize2fs command further down in the document. Sorry for the noise. Still interested in an known bugs in the --grow=max part if there are any. Thanks, Mark -- 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
