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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@websitemanagers.com.au>,
	Anugraha Sinha <asinha.mailinglist@gmail.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Converting 4 disk RAID10 to RAID5
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 08:13:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <562F6A77.20502@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562F1A61.6010709@websitemanagers.com.au>

On 10/27/2015 02:32 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> On 27/10/15 17:19, Anugraha Sinha wrote:
\
>> This will restart your array with the required raid-level and also
>> start the resyncing process.

You shouldn't have needed to stop it.

> I got:
> mdadm: Failed to restore critical section for reshape, sorry.
> Possibly you needed to specify the --backup-file

Probably just need "mdadm /dev/md0 --grow --continue --backup-file=...."

where .... is a file location outside the array.  You may also need
--invalid-backup

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-26  1:26 Converting 4 disk RAID10 to RAID5 Adam Goryachev
2015-10-26 14:09 ` Anugraha Sinha
2015-10-26 14:10 ` Phil Turmel
2015-10-26 23:55   ` Adam Goryachev
2015-10-27  6:19     ` Anugraha Sinha
2015-10-27  6:32       ` Adam Goryachev
2015-10-27 12:13         ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2015-10-28  1:57           ` Adam Goryachev
2015-10-28 13:56             ` Phil Turmel

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