Re: External bitmap disappears

["Jon Nelson" <jnelson-linux-raid@jamponi.net>]

I'd like to offer a suggestion, then:

perhaps mdadm --detail --scan
could add bitmap= to it's output as appropriate?


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Jon Nelson wrote:
>> I've configured a raid10,f2 with an external bitmap:
>>
>> mdadm --grow --bitmap=/md0.bitmap /dev/md0
>>
>> The root ('/') filesystem is NOT on the raid. It's a normal partition
>> (/dev/sdb1, the boot device actually).
>> After reboot, cat /proc/mdstat does not show a bitmap. What's up with
>> that? That sure doesn't seem right.
>
> If a bitmap isn't stored inside a superblock, you have to
> specify the same filename when ASSEMBLING the array.
>
> Add it to mdadm.conf file.
>
> /mjt
>
>



-- 
Jon