Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-17 Thread Nagilum
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:50:09 +0200 From: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file To: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-15 Thread Nagilum
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:31:23 +1000 From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file To: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-15 Thread Nagilum
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:55:22 +0200 From: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file To: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-15 Thread Neil Brown
Thanks for the extra details. I still cannot manage to reproduce it which is frustrating, but I think I can fix your array for you. Get the source for mdadm 2.6.3, apply the following patch, then use mdadm -A /dev/md0 --update=this /dev/sd[abcde] that should re-write the part of the

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-14 Thread Nagilum
Oct 2007 08:43:28 +0200 From: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file To: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org - Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday October 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track? I've now noticed the following: # ~/mdadm-2.6.3/mdadm -v -A /dev/md0 /dev/sd[d-e] mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sdd is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot -1. mdadm:

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-12 Thread Nagilum
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:51:08 +1000 From: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file To: Nagilum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-11 Thread Nagilum
: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Hi, During the process of reshaping a Raid5 from 3 (/dev/sd[a-c]) to 5 devices (/dev/sd[a-e]) the system was accidentally shut down. I know I was stupid I should have used a --backup-file but stupid me didn't. Thanks

Re: Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-11 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday October 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, after looking in Grow.c I can see that the backup file is removed once the critial section has passed: if (backup_file) unlink(backup_file); printf(Name : ... critical section

Help RAID5 reshape Oops / backup-file

2007-10-09 Thread Nagilum
Hi, During the process of reshaping a Raid5 from 3 (/dev/sd[a-c]) to 5 devices (/dev/sd[a-e]) the system was accidentally shut down. I know I was stupid I should have used a --backup-file but stupid me didn't. Thanks for not rubbing it any further. :( Ok, here is what I have: nas:~# uname -a