Re: Problem with 5disk RAID5 array - two drives lost

2006-04-23 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 17:17 -0700, Tim Bostrom wrote: I bought two extra 250GB drives - I'll try using dd_rescue as recommended and see if I can get a good copy of hdf online. You might want to use dd_rhelp: http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html -Arthur - To unsubscribe

Unable to add write-intent bitmap

2006-04-22 Thread Arthur Britto
Hi, I am unable to add a write-intent bitmap to an existing array. The man page indicates: When using an internal bitmap, the chunksize is automatically determined to make best use of available space. Yet, it appears that bitmap being created is too large and goes past the end of the

Re: Unable to add write-intent bitmap

2006-04-22 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 12:39 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: You should be able to make it work by setting the chunk size explicitly to 1024k i.e mdadm -Gb internal --bitmap-chunk=1024 /dev/md0 That worked. Thanks Neil! =D -Arthur - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe