It doesn't make sense to write_bitmap with less than 2 nodes, in order to avoid 'write_bitmap' received invalid nodes number, it would be better to do checking nodes in getopt operations. Signed-off-by: Zhilong Liu <zlliu@xxxxxxxx> --- such as following method would reproduce the issue. # mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 --bitmap=internal /dev/sda /dev/sdb # mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --bitmap=none # mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --bitmap=clustered --nodes=1 # mdadm -X /dev/sda, it would be written internal bitmap. diff --git a/mdadm.c b/mdadm.c index b5d89e4..747101c 100644 --- a/mdadm.c +++ b/mdadm.c @@ -603,8 +603,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) case O(GROW, Nodes): case O(CREATE, Nodes): c.nodes = parse_num(optarg); - if (c.nodes <= 0) { - pr_err("invalid number for the number of cluster nodes: %s\n", + if (c.nodes < 2) { + pr_err("clustered array needs two nodes at least: %s\n", optarg); exit(2); } diff --git a/super1.c b/super1.c index 87a74cb..882cd61 100644 --- a/super1.c +++ b/super1.c @@ -2380,14 +2380,7 @@ static int write_bitmap1(struct supertype *st, int fd, enum bitmap_update update } if (bms->version == BITMAP_MAJOR_CLUSTERED) { - if (st->nodes == 1) { - /* the parameter for nodes is not valid */ - pr_err("Warning: cluster-md at least needs two nodes\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } else if (st->nodes == 0) - /* --nodes is not specified */ - break; - else if (__cpu_to_le32(st->nodes) < bms->nodes) { + if (__cpu_to_le32(st->nodes) < bms->nodes) { /* Since the nodes num is not increased, no need to check the space * is enough or not, just update bms->nodes */ bms->nodes = __cpu_to_le32(st->nodes); -- 2.6.6 -- 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