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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Dat Chu <dattanchu@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linear RAID hot grow
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:22:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18122.30381.180760.497094@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Dat Chu on Monday August 20

On Monday August 20, dattanchu@gmail.com wrote:
> I am currently running 2.6.22.1 kernel with mdadm version 2.6.2.

That combination should work.

> 
> When I try to run
> mdadm --grow /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdd1
> mdadm: Cannot add new disk to this array

Odd.  I tried add a drive to a three-drive linear array and it
worked, though my drives are somewhat smaller than yours - that
shouldn't matter though.

Do you get any kernel messages at the time when you try to add?
  dmesg | tail -20

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-20 21:35 Linear RAID hot grow Dat Chu
2007-08-20 21:46 ` Justin Piszcz
     [not found]   ` <d0e8f6370708201455i37e21a4mf2dbf8ecb0133cb0@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-20 22:21     ` Dat Chu
2007-08-20 23:30       ` Neil Brown
2007-08-21  3:18         ` Dat Chu
2007-08-21  5:22           ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-08-22  4:12             ` Dat Chu

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