Re: Device delete returns "unable to go below four devices on raid10" on 5 drive setup

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On Aug 31, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Steven Post <redalert.commander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 11:42 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> 
>> Yes. It might take a few minutes after the chunks are reallocated for the device to be removed from the volume. I've had some cases where even a reboot was needed for the information in fi sh to refresh.
> 
> I see, so that might be normal behaviour.

No, I think it's expected for deleted devices to not appear in the volume listing anymore, but with older kernels I had that experience. I haven't tried it recently with newer kernels.

> 
> As an aside, I'd rather not recreate the arrays if it can be done
> without recreating.

It should work. But it's an experimental file system. I'd at least make a backup if you're going to do this with the device add/remove method.


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