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SubjectRe: Kernel 2.6.17 and RAID5 Grow Problem (critical section backup)
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> p34:~# mdadm /dev/md3 -a /dev/hde1
> mdadm: added /dev/hde1
>
> p34:~# mdadm -D /dev/md3
> /dev/md3:
> Version : 00.90.03
> Creation Time : Fri Jun 30 09:17:12 2006
> Raid Level : raid5
> Array Size : 1953543680 (1863.04 GiB 2000.43 GB)
> Device Size : 390708736 (372.61 GiB 400.09 GB)
> Raid Devices : 6
> Total Devices : 7
> Preferred Minor : 3
> Persistence : Superblock is persistent
>
> Update Time : Fri Jul 7 08:25:44 2006
> State : clean
> Active Devices : 6
> Working Devices : 7
> Failed Devices : 0
> Spare Devices : 1
>
> Layout : left-symmetric
> Chunk Size : 512K
>
> UUID : e76e403c:7811eb65:73be2f3b:0c2fc2ce
> Events : 0.232940
>
> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
> 0 22 1 0 active sync /dev/hdc1
> 1 56 1 1 active sync /dev/hdi1
> 2 3 1 2 active sync /dev/hda1
> 3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1
> 4 88 1 4 active sync /dev/hdm1
> 5 8 33 5 active sync /dev/sdc1
>
> 6 33 1 - spare /dev/hde1
> p34:~# mdadm --grow /dev/md3 --raid-disks=7
> mdadm: Need to backup 15360K of critical section..
> mdadm: Cannot set device size/shape for /dev/md3: No space left on device
> p34:~# mdadm --grow /dev/md3 --bitmap=internal --raid-disks=7
> mdadm: can change at most one of size, raiddisks, bitmap, and layout
> p34:~# umount /dev/md3
> p34:~# mdadm --grow /dev/md3 --raid-disks=7
> mdadm: Need to backup 15360K of critical section..
> mdadm: Cannot set device size/shape for /dev/md3: No space left on device
> p34:~#
>
> The disk only has about 350GB of 1.8TB used, any idea why I get this error?
>
> I searched google but could not find anything on this issue when trying to
> grow the array?
>
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Is it because I use a 512kb chunksize?

Jul 7 08:44:59 p34 kernel: [4295845.933000] raid5: reshape: not enough
stripes. Needed 512
Jul 7 08:44:59 p34 kernel: [4295845.962000] md: couldn't update array
info. -28

So the RAID5 reshape only works if you use a 128kb or smaller chunk size?

Justin.
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