David Greaves wrote:
> I read that he aborted it, then removed both drives before giving md a chance
> to
> restart.
>
> He said:
> After several minutes dmesg indicated that mdadm gave up and
> the grow process stopped. After googling around I tried the solutions
> that seemed most likely to work
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday October 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> The key question I think is: will md continue to grow an array even if it
>> enters
>> degraded mode during the grow?
>> ie grow from a 6 drive array to a 7-of-8 degraded array?
>
> Yes, md can grow to a degraded array. If yo
On Tuesday October 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote:
> > On Monday October 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I bought two new hard drives to expand my raid array today and
> >> unfortunately one of them appears to be bad. The problem didn't arise
>
> > Looks like you are in
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday October 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I bought two new hard drives to expand my raid array today and
>> unfortunately one of them appears to be bad. The problem didn't arise
> Looks like you are in real trouble. Both the drives seem bad in some
> way. If it
On Monday October 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I bought two new hard drives to expand my raid array today and
> unfortunately one of them appears to be bad. The problem didn't arise
> until after I attempted to grow the raid array. I was trying to expand
> the array from 6 to 8 drives. I ad
Hi,
I bought two new hard drives to expand my raid array today and
unfortunately one of them appears to be bad. The problem didn't arise
until after I attempted to grow the raid array. I was trying to expand
the array from 6 to 8 drives. I added both drives using mdadm --add
/dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 whic
