From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Rory Jaffe <rsjaffe@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 Shrinking array-size nearly killed the system
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:40:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7B85EB.60505@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1103120655370.7942@uplift.swm.pp.se>
On 03/12/2011 12:56 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Rory Jaffe wrote:
>
>> 3. Is there something I did that caused the crash?
>
> Mdadm has no concept of filesystem, it works on the block device.
>
> From your text you give no indication that you shrunk the filesystem before shrinking the block device. Did you?
>
Also, you didn't say what kind of filesystem it is. Some don't support shrinking at all (XFS is one), or don't support shrinking while running (most of them).
You will very likely need to do this from a LiveCD of one form or another. If your filesystem cannot be shrunk, you'll need to make a fresh backup, reformat, and restore.
(You do have a backup, don't you?)
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-12 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <AANLkTimrq904HRZfx6RpPrVNd0EJ5AkUZtytY7TqcFYv@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-12 4:58 ` RAID5 Shrinking array-size nearly killed the system Rory Jaffe
2011-03-12 5:56 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-03-12 14:40 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
[not found] ` <AANLkTik2qk2ep7fsQPjAesnjur-0AB-Xx7EeZ5YfeCSA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-12 17:47 ` [PATCH] Add more warnings to --grow documentation (was: RAID5 Shrinking array-size nearly killed the system) Phil Turmel
[not found] ` <AANLkTikRdqZ4nAdLcUuYz17KeWb54ES_sNYzzW-u1R0x@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-12 17:58 ` RAID5 Shrinking array-size nearly killed the system Phil Turmel
2011-03-12 18:31 ` Rory Jaffe
[not found] ` <AANLkTim+OwO5-w5Hhjdchp+Nj8k0zTLqqvRKfAzFgkWz@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-12 20:10 ` Phil Turmel
2011-03-13 6:56 ` Rory Jaffe
2011-03-13 13:33 ` Phil Turmel
2011-03-15 5:26 ` Rory Jaffe
2011-03-15 5:44 ` NeilBrown
2011-03-15 5:53 ` Rory Jaffe
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