From: Gilad Arnold <arnold@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Roman Mamedov <roman@rm.pp.ru>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: migrating from RAID5 to RAID10
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:58:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100610195851.GA8408@libra.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100611005231.401529c0@natsu>
Thanks for your response, Roman.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:52:30AM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> > I have been using RAID5 on a desktop machine using a couple of 500
> > GB drives. My original intent was to grow the array by adding more
> > drives, as the need arises.
>
> Do you currently run RAID5 with just 2 drives, in degraded mode, or
> maybe you meant something else?
No, it is not degraded, it's a clean 2-drive RAID5. I know it doesn't
make much sense as it is ;-) the intent was to grow the array later,
relying on mdadm's grow feature. Right now, I'm guessing that it
operates like a RAID1 for all practical purposes.
Gilad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-10 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-09 15:11 migrating from RAID5 to RAID10 Gilad Arnold
2010-06-10 18:52 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-06-10 19:58 ` Gilad Arnold [this message]
2010-06-10 22:11 ` Drew
2010-06-10 22:21 ` Drew
2010-06-10 22:30 ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-10 22:26 ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-16 15:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-06-16 18:30 ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-16 20:15 ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-17 1:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-06-16 21:26 ` Neil Brown
2010-06-17 17:44 ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-17 22:30 ` Neil Brown
2010-06-18 8:40 ` Keld Simonsen
2010-06-21 22:09 ` Neil Brown
2010-06-17 22:46 ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-18 2:39 ` Neil Brown
2010-06-18 4:01 ` Gilad Arnold
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