From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org>
Cc: Mike Hartman <mike@hartmanipulation.com>,
Jon@ehardcastle.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accidental grow before add
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:18:03 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101005161803.0ddc874b@notabene> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100928171451.27293d0o1kotcfi8@cakebox.homeunix.net>
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:14:51 +0200
Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org> wrote:
>
> ----- Message from mike@hartmanipulation.com ---------
>
> >> I am more interested to know why it kicked off a reshape that would
> >> leave the array in a degraded state without a warning and
> >> needing a '--force' are you sure there wasn't capacity to 'grow' anyway?
> >
> > Positive. I had no spare of any kind and mdstat was showing all disks
> > were in use.
>
> Yep, a warning/safety net would be good. At the moment mdadm assumes
> you know what you're doing.
>
I've added this to my list of possible enhancements for mdadm-3.2
Thanks,
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-26 7:27 Accidental grow before add Mike Hartman
2010-09-26 9:39 ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-26 9:54 ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-26 9:59 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-09-26 10:18 ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-26 10:38 ` Robin Hill
2010-09-26 19:34 ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-26 21:22 ` Robin Hill
2010-09-27 8:11 ` Jon Hardcastle
2010-09-27 9:05 ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-28 15:14 ` Nagilum
2010-10-05 5:18 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-09-30 16:13 ` Mike Hartman
2010-10-05 6:24 ` Neil Brown
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