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GlemSom
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:05 pm    Post subject: mdadm: Grow raid0 to raid5 Reply with quote

Using losetup, I've tested growing a raid0 with 2 devices, to a raid5 with 3 devices.

Test-procedure - which works:

Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=fil0 bs=1000M count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=fil1 bs=1000M count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=fil2 bs=1100M count=1

cfdisk /dev/loop0
cfdisk /dev/loop1
cfdisk /dev/loop2

mdadm /dev/md1 --create --chunk=64 --level=0 --metadata=0.90 --raid-devices=2 /dev/loop0p1 /dev/loop1p1

mdadm /dev/md0 --grow --level=5

mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/loop2



md1 looks like this before growing:
Quote:
mdadm --detail /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Sat Sep 29 20:58:22 2012
Raid Level : raid0
Array Size : 2047744 (2000.09 MiB 2096.89 MB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Sat Sep 29 20:58:22 2012
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0

Chunk Size : 64K

UUID : 7664bd06:f105820c:c1a11112:11979c50 (local to host ws-gentoo)
Events : 0.1

Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 259 0 0 active sync /dev/loop0p1
1 259 1 1 active sync /dev/loop1p1


And after
Quote:

ws-gentoo ~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Sat Sep 29 20:58:22 2012
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 2047744 (2000.09 MiB 2096.89 MB)
Used Dev Size : 1023872 (1000.04 MiB 1048.44 MB)
Raid Devices : 3
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Sat Sep 29 21:02:53 2012
State : clean, degraded
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0

Layout : parity-last
Chunk Size : 64K

UUID : 7664bd06:f105820c:c1a11112:11979c50 (local to host ws-gentoo)
Events : 0.2

Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 259 0 0 active sync /dev/loop0p1
1 259 1 1 active sync /dev/loop1p1
2 0 0 2 removed

At this point, I can then add the 3rd loopback device - and it will start rebuilding.


but, doing the exact same procedure on my md0 fails when trying to change level.
I just get: "mdadm: /dev/md0: could not set level to raid5"

Details of md0:
Quote:
ws-gentoo ~ # mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 0.90
Creation Time : Sun Jul 25 03:27:33 2010
Raid Level : raid0
Array Size : 486332096 (463.80 GiB 498.00 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Sun Jul 25 03:27:33 2010
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0

Chunk Size : 64K

UUID : de87a664:b2e0493c:cb201669:f728008a
Events : 0.1

Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 19 0 active sync /dev/sdb3
1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1


In my dmesg, I see this:
Quote:
md/raid:md0: cannot takeover raid0 with more than one zone.
md: md0: raid5 would not accept array
mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!
mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!

What could be causing this?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what happens when u add the third partition first as spare before growing to l5?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

katfish wrote:
what happens when u add the third partition first as spare before growing to l5?


That still didn't work.

Though, I found the issue.
If a raid0 is created with more then 1 zone - reshaping is not supported. (If one partition is slightly larger then the others)

So, I had to dump all of my data out - re-create the array - and dump back in...
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