From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Recovering from default FC6 install Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:24:38 -0500 Message-ID: <455EFB86.1040604@tmr.com> References: <4556B86D.3030802@tmr.com> <1163345905.4138.501.camel@fc6.xsintricity.com> <17755.42885.994680.290558@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17755.42885.994680.290558@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: Doug Ledford , Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979