From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem changing raid level with Ubuntu 10.04 / 2.6.32 / mdadm 3.1.1
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:42:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100208164253.4e6277fb@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1002032009410.31777@uplift.swm.pp.se>
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:12:32 +0100 (CET)
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> Any reason this doesn't work with a bitmap, and if it doesn't, then
> perhaps this should be documented somewhere or at least mdadm should throw
> an error message?
>
It doesn't work with a bitmap because md is not able to resize the bitmap
which might be needed when resizing an array.
The next release of mdadm should provide a more helpful message.
I'll look in to ways of getting md to resize the bitmap.
NeilBrown
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-08 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-03 19:05 problem changing raid level with Ubuntu 10.04 / 2.6.32 / mdadm 3.1.1 Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-03 19:12 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-04 8:31 ` Kristleifur Daðason
2010-02-08 5:42 ` Neil Brown [this message]
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