Trying to grow a 4 disk RAID 5 array to a 6 disk RAID 6 array - running
2.6.34-rc2 (also tried with latest git, same sysfs errors)
Using mdadm from git.
Here's the error I get when I try to perform the grow:
# ./mdadm --grow --backup-file=/root/backup.md4 --level=6
--raid-devices=6 /dev/md4
mdadm: Need to backup 768K of critical section..
mdadm: /dev/md4: Cannot get array details from sysfs
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md4 : active raid6 sde[0] sdg[5](S) sdh[6](S) sdc[3] sdd[2] sdf[1]
4395415488 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 18 [5/4] [UUUU_]
unused devices: <none>
dmesg reports lots of sysfs errors:
[ 922.249484] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 922.249549] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one+0xcc/0xe3()
[ 922.249609] Hardware name: GA-MA785GT-UD3H
[ 922.249673] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
'/devices/virtual/block/md4/md/stripe_cache_size'
[ 922.249783] Modules linked in: ppdev lp parport sco bridge stp bnep
rfcomm l2cap crc16 dahdi_echocan_oslec echo powernow_k8
cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_conservative
uinput fuse ext3 jbd mbcache it87 hwmon_vid raid456 async_raid6_recov
async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_memcpy async_tx md_mod btusb
bluetooth pl2303 rfkill usbserial snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi
snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_hwdep
snd_mixer_oss ata_generic snd_pcm snd_seq_midi ide_pci_generic
snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device r8169
firewire_ohci wcopenpci snd edac_core ahci i2c_piix4 ohci_hcd k10temp
soundcore mii atiixp firewire_core edac_mce_amd tpm_tis libata nvidia(P)
ide_core agpgart wctdm tpm dahdi snd_page_alloc tpm_bios i2c_core floppy
processor button crc_itu_t crc_ccitt evdev xfs exportfs sd_mod
crc_t10dif dm_mod thermal fan thermal_sys ehci_hcd usb_storage usbcore
nls_base scsi_mod
[ 922.254181] Pid: 10642, comm: mdadm Tainted: P W
2.6.34-rc2-amd64 #2
[ 922.254241] Call Trace:
[ 922.254302] [<ffffffff8104548d>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x76/0x8c
[ 922.254366] [<ffffffff810454f5>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x40/0x45
[ 922.254427] [<ffffffff811363d9>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xcc/0xe3
[ 922.254490] [<ffffffff811355e6>] ? sysfs_add_file_mode+0x4b/0x7d
[ 922.254553] [<ffffffff8113750c>] ? internal_create_group+0xdd/0x16b
[ 922.259781] [<ffffffffa0d50f12>] ? run+0x4fa/0x685 [raid456]
[ 922.259853] [<ffffffffa0d08b20>] ? level_store+0x3b7/0x42e [md_mod]
[ 922.259922] [<ffffffffa0d05b1f>] ? md_attr_store+0x77/0x96 [md_mod]
[ 922.259988] [<ffffffff811350ae>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xe3/0x11f
[ 922.260061] [<ffffffff810e5e34>] ? vfs_write+0xa4/0x101
[ 922.260122] [<ffffffff810e5f44>] ? sys_write+0x45/0x6b
[ 922.260183] [<ffffffff810089c2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 922.260243] ---[ end trace f9f1fcb8cad24d01 ]---
[ 922.260381] raid5: failed to create sysfs attributes for md4
After the grow failed, I stopped the array and restarted it. At that
point it appears to be continuing with the grow process? Is this correct?
# mdadm --stop /dev/md4
mdadm: stopped /dev/md4
# mdadm --assemble /dev/md4
mdadm: /dev/md4 has been started with 4 drives (out of 5) and 2 spares.
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md4 : active raid6 sde[0] sdh[5] sdg[6](S) sdc[3] sdd[2] sdf[1]
4395415488 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 18 [5/4] [UUUU_]
[>....................] recovery = 0.0% (147712/1465138496)
finish=661.1min speed=36928K/sec
unused devices: <none>
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