RE: Failed adadm RAID array after aborted Grown operation

[Bob Brand <brand@wmawater.com.au>]

Sorry Reindl.  I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying I did or didn't do 
the right thing in booting from a CentOS rescue disk? At the moment it's 
running from the rescue disk and, be it the best distro to have used (or 
not), I would imagine that I need to keep running from the rescue disk until 
the reshape is complete as rebooting in the middle of a reshape is what got 
me in this mess.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:36 PM
To: Bob Brand <brand@wmawater.com.au>; Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@gmail.com>; 
Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>; Phil Turmel 
<philip@turmel.org>; NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Failed adadm RAID array after aborted Grown operation



Am 11.05.22 um 07:39 schrieb Bob Brand:
> Do I understand that you would recommend upgrading our installation of
> Linux once the repair is complete or are advising downloading and
> compiling a new kernel as part of the repair?  Or are you suggesting
> that it was the fact that we’re on such an old version of CentOS that
> caused this mess?  I ask because once this is repaired (assuming it
> does complete successfully), I would like to extend the array to the
> full 45 drives of which this server is capable

you where adivised doing thatg with a live-iso of whatever distribution with 
a recent kernel and recent mdadm and leave your installed os alone



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