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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Recovering from default FC6 install
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:24:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <455EFB86.1040604@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17755.42885.994680.290558@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Sunday November 12, dledford@redhat.com wrote:
>   
>> So, assuming that they are persistent, just recreate the arrays in place
>> as version 1.0 superblocks with internal bitmap.  I did that exact thing
>> on my FC6 machine I was testing with (raid1, not raid5, but no biggie
>> there) and it worked fine.  The detailed list of instructions:
>>
>>     
>
> You can add a bitmap to an array while it is active.
>   mdadm --grow --bitmap=internal /dev/mdX
>   

Thank you!!! Works like a charm!
> (Providing the kernel is new enough - I'm not sure when that went in,
> but it was a while ago).
The latest FC6 kernel is 2.6.18 something, should be okay.


-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-18 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-12  6:00 Recovering from default FC6 install Bill Davidsen
2006-11-12 15:38 ` Doug Ledford
2006-11-14 18:34   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-15 23:49   ` Neil Brown
2006-11-18 12:24     ` Bill Davidsen [this message]

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