On Tuesday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am trying to create RAID5 array using mdadm on kernel 2.6.15 as
>
> # mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 --assume-clean --force --bitmap=/tmp/bitmap.txt -l5 -n4
> /dev/sd{a,b,c,d}
>
> But when I execute this command getting the following error:
>
> mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Cannot allocate memory
How big are your devices?
Try setting a larger bitmap chunk size
--bitmap-chunk=1024
maybe.
NeilBrown
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