From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: "J. David Beutel" <jdb@getsu.com>,
Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>,
Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reducing the number of disks a RAID1 expects
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:33:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E69925.8010607@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070910095557.GA22549@teal.hq.k1024.org>
Iustin Pop wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:31:54PM -1000, J. David Beutel wrote:
>
>> [root@samue ~]# mdadm --grow /dev/md5 -n2
>> mdadm: Cannot set device size/shape for /dev/md5: Device or resource busy
>>
>> mdadm - v1.6.0 - 4 June 2004
>> Linux 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 #1 Fri Oct 21 03:46:55 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>
> I'm not sure that such an old kernel supports reshaping an array. The
> mdadm version should not be a problem, as that message is probably
> generated by the kernel.
>
Well, it supported making it larger, but you could be right, he's going
down a less-tested code path.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-11 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-10 1:10 reducing the number of disks a RAID1 expects J. David Beutel
2007-09-10 2:29 ` Richard Scobie
2007-09-10 7:31 ` J. David Beutel
2007-09-10 9:55 ` Iustin Pop
2007-09-11 13:33 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-09-11 14:04 ` Neil Brown
2007-09-15 21:13 ` J. David Beutel
2007-09-16 22:09 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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