From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: Cancel reshape? Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:32:58 +1100 Message-ID: <20110112163258.699a6fe0@notabene.brown> References: <4D2D2BD2.7000601@anonymous.org.uk> <4D2D32DF.9010002@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D2D32DF.9010002@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Robinson Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:49:35 +0000 John Robinson wrote: > On 12/01/2011 04:19, John Robinson wrote: > [...] > > Can I cancel reshape that's currently running, and using the backup file > > that's actually on another (RAID-1) array on three of the same drives, > > and running at ~7MB/s, and try again? > > Blast. I found this patch to add a revert-reshape option from archives > of this list - http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg30961.html - but > it's not included in mdadm 3.1.4 and I'm running from a rescue CD so I > can't rebuild mdadm with it. I think I might just have to wait a while. > That patch only works to revert a reshape that is increasing the number of data-devices in the array. > Perhaps I can stop the reshape and restart it with the backup file > elsewhere. Hmm, I've an SSD I haven't installed yet... Maybe time to > give it a wee workout :-) That should work. mdadm --stop ... copy file mdadm --assemble ...... --backup-file=/new/place NeilBrown > > Cheers, > > John. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html