From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: aristizb@ualberta.ca
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SET_BITMAP_FILE assembling raid1
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:47:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19123.11528.751595.835367@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from aristizb@ualberta.ca on Thursday September 17
On Thursday September 17, aristizb@ualberta.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After have stopped a raid1, I try to assemble it with one device and
> its bitmap; but I received the following error message:
>
> $mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md2003 --bitmap=/tmp/md2003bm
> /dev/syntropy21/ian_dvol_200_0_1
>
> mdadm: SET_BITMAP_FILE failed.
>
> After 5 minutes I retry the command and it succeeds, assembling the
> raid without any problems.
>
>
> It looks like mdadm cannot use the file I specified for the external
> bitmap, but this file is not in use by any other raid. Is there any
> explanation on why assemble could fail to create the raid with the
> specified bitmap?
If it failed once and then succeeded later it is most like that md
thought the file was already in use in some way.
If so there should be a message in the kernel logs saying something
like:
md2003: error: bitmap file is already in use
Was there such a message?
NeilBrown
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Juan.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-18 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 22:07 SET_BITMAP_FILE assembling raid1 aristizb
2009-09-18 6:47 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2009-09-18 17:35 ` aristizb
2009-09-25 7:37 ` Neil Brown
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