On Tuesday August 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >   mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-disks=3
> the mdadm --grow supports saving backup file that can be used to
> re-assemble the array in case of crash during the "critical section".
> Any idea what is the size of file? or is there any upper limit in the
> case of array of 5 drives?

The file size depends on the chunk size and the number of disks.

I think for 5 disks it would be less than 30 times the chunk size, so
for a 128K chunk, it would be under 3 Meg.

NeilBrown
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