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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Can't reshape RAID1 to RAID5 due to chunk size
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:59:56 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120912105956.155f5d5e@natsu> (raw)

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Hello,

# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 
/dev/md1:
        Version : 1.2
  Creation Time : Fri May 27 09:50:54 2011
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 488372863 (465.75 GiB 500.09 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 488372863 (465.75 GiB 500.09 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 3
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

  Intent Bitmap : Internal

    Update Time : Wed Sep 12 10:54:33 2012
          State : active 
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 3
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 1

           Name : avdeb:1  (local to host avdeb)
           UUID : e29a222d:e6245302:5ff3f834:ad471a01
         Events : 26

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       82        0      active sync   /dev/sdf2
       1       8       34        1      active sync   /dev/sdc2

       2       8       50        -      spare   /dev/sdd2

# mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --chunk=64K --level=5 --raid-devices=3
mdadm: New chunk size does not divide component size

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Shouldn't mdadm be able to figure out a way to somehow proceed in this case? :)
So what if it does not divide, I am increasing the array size by 33%, it
has plenty of new space, why not leave a bit of it in the end of all devices so
the chunk size does divide...
Also I heard of cases (on #linux-raid IRC, I think) when people reshaped like
this without specifying the chunk size explicitly, and ended up with something
like a 4K chunk, which is certainly less than optimal.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12  4:59 Roman Mamedov [this message]
2012-09-19  6:20 ` Can't reshape RAID1 to RAID5 due to chunk size NeilBrown
2012-09-19  7:46   ` Roman Mamedov

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