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From: Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch>
To: Peter Sangas <pete@wnsdev.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "bitmap" line in /proc/mdstat
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:38:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58011817.5@bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005501d22640$fc4d6a20$f4e83e60$@wnsdev.com>

On 14/10/16 19:32, Peter Sangas wrote:
> Do you know why some of your mds were created with bitmaps and others were not?  When I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and used the installer to create a RAID1 some of the mds had bitmaps and some did not.

Yes, I do. Phil Turmel answer my initial question:

On 14/10/16 13:53, Phil Turmel wrote:
 > Bitmaps have been available for a long time, but including them on a
 > new array by default is recent.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=147644598622369&w=2


You can remove the bitmap while the RAID is running with

# mdadm -G /dev/md5 -b none

or add it with

# mdadm -G /dev/md5 -b internal


Regards,
Ramon

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-14 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-14 10:06 "bitmap" line in /proc/mdstat Ramon Hofer
2016-10-14 11:53 ` Phil Turmel
2016-10-14 12:32   ` Ramon Hofer
2016-10-14 13:59     ` Ramon Hofer
2016-10-14 14:10       ` Andreas Klauer
2016-10-14 14:23         ` Ramon Hofer
2016-10-14 16:08   ` Peter Sangas
2016-10-14 16:29     ` Ramon Hofer
2016-10-14 17:32       ` Peter Sangas
2016-10-14 17:38         ` Ramon Hofer [this message]
2016-10-14 17:43         ` Andreas Klauer

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