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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Linux mdadm --grow RAID6: Something wrong - reshape aborted
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 16:44:34 +1000
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On Thu, 2 May 2013 13:56:09 +0200 Ole Tange <tange@binf.ku.dk> wrote:

> I have a RAID60 that I want to expand.
>=20
> The current setup is: 2 axles each having 9 disks + 2 spares.
>=20
> The future wanted setup is: 4 axles each having 10 disks + 1 spare.
>=20
> So I need to do some --grow to reshape the drives.
>=20
> I thought this would be enough:
>=20
>   mdadm -v --grow /dev/md1 --raid-devices=3D10 --backup-file=3D/root/back=
-md1
>   mdadm -v --grow /dev/md2 --raid-devices=3D10 --backup-file=3D/root/back=
-md2
>   mdadm -v --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=3D4 --add /dev/md3 /dev/md4
>=20
> The last command works, but the 2 first commands fail with:
>=20
>   mdadm: Need to backup 7168K of critical section..
>   mdadm: /dev/md2: Something wrong - reshape aborted

I assume you are getting this error when running a test with small loop-back
devices - yes?
Very sensible to test first.  However to reshape a RAID6 from 9 to 10, you
need each device to be at least 7*8*chunksize*2 - possibly a bit more than
that.
Your script uses a chunksize of 128K, so you need at least 15Meg
Your script creates 1Meg devices.

Try your test with a  much smaller chunk size and a somewhat larger device
size.

NeilBrown

>=20
> How can I --grow a RAID6 to use more devices?
>=20
> Info about the system:
>=20
>   $ mdadm --version
>   mdadm - v3.2.5 - 18th May 2012
>   $ uname -r
>   3.5.0-17-generic
>=20
> This URL includes a Makefile to reproduce the problem:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/503832/linux-mdadm-grow-raid6-something-=
wrong-reshape-aborted
>=20
>=20
> /Ole
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