From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Potential mdadm 2.6.7 bug: Cannot grow linear arrays with superblock v1.0, 1.1, or 1.2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:15:07 +1100 Message-ID: <18683.56219.129104.439904@notabene.brown> References: <8CAFC3107449F0E-C80-C20@mblk-d47.sysops.aol.com> <18677.25654.376918.24997@notabene.brown> <8CAFE6E1B94976D-C0-14F3@FWM-D03.sysops.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: message from thomas62186218@aol.com on Friday October 17 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: thomas62186218@aol.com Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Friday October 17, thomas62186218@aol.com wrote: > Hi Neil, > > Thank you for the reply and the patch. I patched 2.6.7 (had to tweak > the patch a little), but this patch seems to have done the trick. I can > now resize linear arrays of different sizes even with superblock 1.0. Thanks for reporting back. > > Was this patch already out there? Or is this a new one? If new, will > this be committed in? This is in my git tree http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=1c6cb603fa60d3425f4d4b76e721b485bb006fcb and so will be in 2.6.8 and 3.0 whenever I release those. NeilBrown