RE: Bitmap did not survive reboot
From: Leslie Rhorer <hidden>
Date: 2009-11-12 04:55:47
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Data Offset : 272 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectorsThe above two items are what you need for both version 1.1 and 1.2 superblocks in order to figure things out. The data, aka the filesystem itself, starts at the Data Offset which is 272 sectors. The superblock itself is 8 sectors in from the front of the disk because you have version 1.2 superblocks. So, 272 - 8 - size of the superblock, which is only a sector or two, is how much internal space you have. So, in your case, you have about 132k of space for the bitmap.
OK. The 10 drive system shows: bitmap: 0/466 pages [0KB], 1024KB chunk The 7 drive system shows: bitmap: 0/350 pages [0KB], 2048KB chunk So you think I should remove both and replace them with mdadm -G /dev/md0 --bitmap=internal --bitmap-chunk=65536 ? While most of the files are large video files, there are a fair number which are smaller data files such as those of the IMAP server and Quicken. I don't want performance to be too terrible for them, either.