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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Kevin McAreavey <kevin.mcareavey@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Damage when growing RAID 5 array
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:45:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <512CBC6C.70005@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9BA0752B-60DD-4BC6-B5C3-B1FBC9C50268@gmail.com>

Hi Kevin,

[top-posting repaired--please don't do that.]

On 02/26/2013 08:41 AM, Kevin McAreavey wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2013, at 13:22, Phil Turmel wrote:
> 
>> On 02/26/2013 04:47 AM, Kevin McAreavey wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I didn't specify a backup-file when attempting to grow the array so I'm not able to run this.
>>
>> Hmmm.  That sounds like a bug.  It should have refused, I believe.  What
>> kernel and mdadm versions are involved here?
> 
> $ uname -srv
> Linux 3.2.0-37-generic-pae #58-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 24 15:51:02 UTC 2013
>
> $ mdadm --version
> mdadm - v3.2.5 - 18th May 2012
>

Try the assemble with "--backup-file=... --invalid-backup"
The file must be outside the array, of course.

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-26 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-25 21:17 Damage when growing RAID 5 array Kevin McAreavey
2013-02-26  3:24 ` Phil Turmel
2013-02-26  9:47   ` Kevin McAreavey
2013-02-26 13:22     ` Phil Turmel
2013-02-26 13:41       ` Kevin McAreavey
2013-02-26 13:45         ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2013-02-26 14:18           ` Kevin McAreavey

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