On 11/21/2018 01:56 PM, Matt Wallis wrote: > So is this a case where the procedure should have been to remove the bitmap > first, or should mdadm never have allowed me to attempt what I did? Yes, you should have removed the bitmap with --grow --bitmap=none before adding the journal. I think that mdadm should not allow to add a journal to an array with bitmap, and vice versa. Currently, --add-journal fails but it updates the metadata and causes the next assembly to fail.
