From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent CARON Subject: Re: Growing a raid 6 array Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:51:18 +0100 Message-ID: <45E7F396.9020000@unix-scripts.info> References: <45E72549.2080108@unix-scripts.info> <17895.34033.867599.954940@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17895.34033.867599.954940@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: Justin Piszcz , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown a =E9crit : > And Laurent: > 1/ Yes, it is that easy > 2/ I doubt a nearly-full ext3 array increases the risk > 3/ The effect of adding a bitmap is that if you suffer a crash whil= e > the array is degraded, it will resync faster so you have less > exposure to multiple failure. >=20 Ok, Thanks for your advice. Laurent - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html