From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramon Hofer Subject: "bitmap" line in /proc/mdstat Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:06:01 +0200 Message-ID: <5800AE09.70608@bluewin.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi all When I have added a new RAID5 yesterday I saw that it has an additional line (bitmap: 0/30 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk) in /proc/mdstat for md5 in contrast to md[1234] not having this line: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear] md5 : active raid5 sdt[4] sds[2] sdr[1] sdi[0] 11720662272 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] bitmap: 0/30 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk md0 : active linear md5[4] md1[0] md4[3] md3[2] md2[1] 33697299328 blocks super 1.2 0k rounding md4 : active raid5 sdj[5] sdm[4] sdl[2] sdk[1] 5860149888 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md3 : active raid5 sdn[0] sdq[4] sdp[2] sdo[1] 5860540032 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md2 : active raid5 sde[0] sdh[4] sdg[2] sdf[1] 4395412224 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md1 : active raid5 sda[0] sdd[3] sdc[2] sdb[1] 5860540032 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] unused devices: What I did yesterday was the following: # mdadm -C /dev/md5 -c 128 -n4 -l5 /dev/sd[irst] # mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --add /dev/md5 # xfs_growfs /mnt/media-raid From what I was reading [1,2] it is useful for faster rebuilds. But why is it not present for md[1234] as I used the same command to create these RAIDs? Is it only possible for the last of the linear devices, or is it only used for almost empty devices, or was the bitmap introduced in a recent update? I wonder if I should and could add a bitmap for the other devices as well? Best regards, Ramon [1] https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Write-intent_bitmap [2] https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mdstat#bitmap_line