Hi all, I got a raid1 composed with 2 disks /dev/sda -- 2T /dev/sdb -- 4T mdadm version is 3.3 and md metadata version is 1.0 At first, I was only using 1T of the each disk, then I grew the array recently with the command mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --size=1951944704K I also tried to add the internal bitmap after expansion finished mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --bitmap=internal But I got the following message mdadm: failed to create internal bitmap - chunksize problem. I found that Avail Dev Size in superblock examine of two disks are the same, same as the value I set when I expanded the array (1951944704K). Then I found that in mdadm bitmap chunksize calculation, in function add_internal_bitmap1 (super1.c) variable "room" and and "max_bits" seems to be overflowed under this situation /dev/sdb3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 8d7b8858:e0e93d83:7c87e6e0:bd1628b8 Name : 1 Creation Time : Sun Apr 8 09:54:47 2018 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 3903889408 (1861.52 GiB 1998.79 GB) Array Size : 1951944704 (1861.52 GiB 1998.79 GB) Super Offset : 7810899368 sectors Unused Space : before=0 sectors, after=3907009952 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 3546fab2:3bfd9a17:39d78059:3d1eb830 Update Time : Sun May 17 10:24:33 2020 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset -8 sectors Checksum : cf552c50 - correct Events : 93088 Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) /dev/sda3: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : 8d7b8858:e0e93d83:7c87e6e0:bd1628b8 Name : 1 Creation Time : Sun Apr 8 09:54:47 2018 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2 Avail Dev Size : 3903889408 (1861.52 GiB 1998.79 GB) Array Size : 1951944704 (1861.52 GiB 1998.79 GB) Super Offset : 3903891368 sectors Unused Space : before=0 sectors, after=1952 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 980038ac:99f4e8c6:39d91851:bdf6ed6d Update Time : Sun May 17 10:24:33 2020 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset -8 sectors Checksum : c3ce8290 - correct Events : 93088 Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) I was wondering is this because mdadm set the size of the rdevs in the array before doing expansion (in function Grow_reshape) that caused the sb->data_size not equals to actual raw device size and consequently led to bitmap chunksize calculation error or it is simply a data type issue. Thanks,