>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I can't seem to zero it out:
>>
>> # mdadm --misc --zero-superblock /dev/hde
>> mdadm: Couldn't open /dev/hde for write - not zeroing
>>
>> Should I just ignore this, or should I break off /dev/hde from the
>> array and scrub the disk and then re-add it back in?
Neil> You could ignore it - it shouldn't hurt.
Ok.
Neil> But if you wanted to (and were running a fairly recent kernel) you
Neil> could
Neil> mdadm --grow --bitmap=internal /dev/md0
Did this. And now I can do mdadm -X /dev/hde1 to examine the bitmap,
but I think this totally blows. To create a bitmap, I add it to an
md# device, but to examine it, I have to know which sub-devices to
query? That's really not what I would expect.
I do see that
mdadm -q --detail /dev/md0
shows the bitmap status (though not the size or parameters of the
bitmap), which is good.
Neil> mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/hde1 --remove /dev/hde1
Neil> mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/hde
Neil> mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/hde1
Worked wonderfully! Cleaned out the old superblock nicely, which I
think is a good thing here.
Neil> mdadm --grow --bitmap=none /dev/md0
Neil> and it should work with minimal resync...
So why would I want to remove the bitmap? The re-sync happened pretty
much quickly enough that I didn't even see any non-in-sync status when
I did the --add of the device back in. Very very cool...
Though... if I was paranoid, I'd disable the bitmap because there's no
way to be sure that I didn't write some garbage at a random block N
somewhere in the array. Hmm... can't make that guarrentee now either,
so it's probably a moot point.
In any case, I'm planning on keeping the bitmap.
Neil> Though thinking about it - after the first --grow, check that
Neil> the unwanted bitmap is still there. It is quite possible that
Neil> the internal bitmap will over-write the unwanted superblock
Neil> (depending on the exact size and aligment of hde1 compared with
Neil> hde). If it is gone, then don't bother with the rest of the
Neil> sequence.
It was still there after the addition of the bitmap.
Thanks Neil!
John
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