Re: mdadm 2.5.5 external bitmap assemble problem

2006-11-06 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Neil Brown wrote: hey i have another related question... external bitmaps seem to pose a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. all of my filesystems are md devices. with an external bitmap i need at least one of the arrays to start, then have filesystems mounted, then

Re: mdadm 2.5.5 external bitmap assemble problem

2006-11-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday November 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think i've got my mdadm.conf set properly for an external bitmap -- but it doesn't seem to work. i can assemble from the command-line fine though: # grep md4 /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ARRAY /dev/md4 bitmap=/bitmap.md4

mdadm 2.5.5 external bitmap assemble problem

2006-11-04 Thread dean gaudet
i think i've got my mdadm.conf set properly for an external bitmap -- but it doesn't seem to work. i can assemble from the command-line fine though: # grep md4 /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ARRAY /dev/md4 bitmap=/bitmap.md4 UUID=dbc3be0b:b5853930:a02e038c:13ba8cdc # mdadm -A /dev/md4 mdadm: Could not