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From: Larkin Lowrey <llowrey@nuclearwinter.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops adding bitmap
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:40:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F67A7C7.1050803@nuclearwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120320083210.4a272426@notabene.brown>

On 3/19/2012 4:32 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:44:45 -0500 Larkin Lowrey
<llowrey@nuclearwinter.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The following command oopsed.
>>
>> mdadm -G --bitmap=internal /dev/md0
>>
>> The array is a two disk raid1 and hosts the root filesystem.
>>
>> Is it not possible/allowed to add a bitmap to an active/mounted array?
>
> It is. But it is busted.
>
> Either use an older mdadm (3.2.2 or earlier), or apply this patch
>
> http://neil.brown.name/git?p=md;a=commitdiff;h=4474ca42e2577563a919fd3ed782e2ec55bf11a2
>
> which has been sent to Linus already and should appear in -stable
kernels in
> a couple of weeks.
>
> NeilBrown

Thank you for the explanation.

--Larkin


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-19 16:44 Kernel oops adding bitmap Larkin Lowrey
2012-03-19 21:32 ` NeilBrown
2012-03-19 21:40   ` Larkin Lowrey [this message]
2012-03-21 13:21     ` CoolCold
2012-03-21 13:52       ` John Robinson
2012-03-21 20:03       ` NeilBrown
2012-03-22 19:54         ` CoolCold

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