I'm just in the process of upgrading the RAID-1 disks in my server, and have
started to experiment with the RAID-1 --grow command. The first phase of the
change went well, I added the new disks to the old arrays and then increased the
size of the arrays to include both the new and old disks.
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
I'm just in the process of upgrading the RAID-1 disks in my server, and have
started to experiment with the RAID-1 --grow command. The first phase of the
change went well, I added the new disks to the old arrays and then increased
the size of the
On 8/07/2006 6:52 a.m., Justin Piszcz wrote:
Reuben,
What chunk size did you use?
I can't even get mine to get past this part:
p34:~# mdadm /dev/md3 --grow --raid-disks=7
mdadm: Need to backup 15360K of critical section..
mdadm: Cannot set device size/shape for /dev/md3: No space left on
On Saturday July 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just in the process of upgrading the RAID-1 disks in my server, and have
started to experiment with the RAID-1 --grow command. The first phase of the
change went well, I added the new disks to the old arrays and then increased
the
size of
On 8/07/2006 10:12 a.m., Neil Brown wrote:
On Saturday July 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And lastly, I felt brave and decided to plunge ahead, resize to 128 blocks
smaller than the device size. mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --size=
The kernel then went like this:
md: couldn't update array info.
