On 04/28/2017 01:12 AM, Andreas Klauer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:57:20PM +0200, Patrik Dahlström wrote: > The quick and dirty method is... grow using dd from 5disk raid (overlay) > to 6disk raid (no overlay) starting from the correct offset (verify!). > That resumes your reshape in an offline-ish, hackish manner, and once > it's done you have the whole thing. That's the theory anyway. > > Pseudocode: > > mdadm --create /dev/md5 --assume-clean /dev/overlay/{a,b,c} > mdadm --create /dev/md6 --assume-clean /dev/{a,b,c,d} # +1 drive I'm stuck at this step $ mdadm --create --assume-clean /dev/md1 --data-offset=126464K --level=5 --raid-devices=6 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdd /dev/sdc /dev/sde /dev/sdf mdadm: cannot open /dev/sda: Device or resource busy My overlay setup is keeping /dev/sd[abdce] busy. How do I setup the overlay to keep it from occupying the disks? Overlays are currently created like this: $ dmsetup create ${b} --table "0 $size_bkl snapshot $d $loop P 8" Best regards // Patrik -- 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