From: "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
To: 'NeilBrown' <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Growing a RAID array
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:43:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8F.2D.17273.3159ECD4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110514181455.7e97e755@notabene.brown>
> 10Meg devices with a 1Meg chunk size means just 10 stripes.
>
> To grow from 4 to 5 data disks it calculates that it needs to back up the
> first 20 stripes (I think). It sees this is more than half the device and
> gets confused and assumes something is wrong.
>
> Try with 4k chunks, or 100Meg devices.
Silly machine. :-)
'Works like a champ, thanks. No errors, and the process completes
in the blink of an eye. Now if growing an array with 3T spindles were only
that fast...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-13 1:02 Growing a RAID array Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-13 1:23 ` NeilBrown
2011-05-13 5:57 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-14 7:17 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-14 8:14 ` NeilBrown
2011-05-14 14:43 ` Leslie Rhorer [this message]
2011-05-14 16:44 ` Leslie Rhorer
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