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Re: [PATCH 018 of 29] md: Support changing rdev size on running arrays.

From: Markus Hochholdinger <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-24 20:47:15

Hello,

it's been a long time, but today I tried again and had success!

Am 28.06.2008 um 01:41 Uhr schrieb Neil Brown [off-list ref]:
On Friday June 27, Markus@hochholdinger.net wrote:
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Am Freitag, 27. Juni 2008 08:51 schrieb NeilBrown:
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From: Chris Webb <redacted>
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You don't want to "mdadm --grow" until everything has been resized.
First lvresize one disk, then write '0' to the .../size file.
Then do the same for the other disk.
Then "mdadm --grow /dev/mdX --size max".
it works for me, if I do:
  echo 0 > /sys/block/md2/md/rd0/size
  mdadm --grow /dev/md2 --size=max
  # till here, nothing happens
  echo 0 > /sys/block/md2/md/rd1/size
  mdadm --grow /dev/md2 --size=max
  # rebuild of the added space begins

If I do only:
  echo 0 > /sys/block/md2/md/rd0/size
  echo 0 > /sys/block/md2/md/rd1/size
  mdadm --grow /dev/md2 --size=max
nothing will change.

As I understand, with "echo 0" md sees the new size and only with --grow the 
superblock will be moved.

I'm doing this with 2.6.32-5-xen-686 within Debian (squeeze) 6.0.

Many thanks to you and all the other linux-raid developers for this feature!

I'm very happy about this :-)


-- 
greetings

eMHa

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