From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman@fastmail.co.uk>
Subject: RAID5 -> RAID6
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:05:55 +0200
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Hi,

I'm wondering what the latest is on migrating from RAID5 to RAID6.

I have a 6 disk RAID5 with 2 spares and have long been thinking of 
making better use of the spares. All 200GB.

I have a 1TB drive that is serving as a backup, but I wonder if there's 
a way to migrate without having to wipe the array.

Any advice?

Max.