Re: [patch 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Evans
I'll look at this again on my next weekend and make the changes. If it exists I'd rather it functioned without issues. My initrds are created by gentoo's genkernel script, which places dmraid on them. I'm not sure if it supports autodetect or not. On 8/24/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [patch 1/1] md: Software Raid autodetect dev list not array

2007-08-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday August 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Michael J. Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In current release kernels the md module (Software RAID) uses a static array > (dev_t[128]) to store partition/device info temporarily for autostart. > > This patch replaces that static array with a

Re: Raid5 Reshape gone wrong, please help

2007-08-23 Thread Greg Nicholson
On 8/23/07, Greg Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK I've reproduced the original issue on a seperate box. > 2.6.23-rc3 does not like to grow Raid 5 arrays. MDadm 2.6.3 > > mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 > mdadm -G --backup-file=/root/backup.raid.file /dev/md0 > > (Yes, I added the

Re: Raid5 Reshape gone wrong, please help

2007-08-23 Thread Greg Nicholson
OK I've reproduced the original issue on a seperate box. 2.6.23-rc3 does not like to grow Raid 5 arrays. MDadm 2.6.3 mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 mdadm -G --backup-file=/root/backup.raid.file /dev/md0 (Yes, I added the backup-file this time... just to be sure.) Mdadm began the grow, and