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From: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: First RAID Setup
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:03:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <do5t17$2g9$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17318.1702.810296.329634@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown wrote:
>
> Converting a raid5 to a raid6 with 2 extra drives (thus having more
> space as well as more redundancy)

Yeah! That's me :D

> is a possibility as the extra space
> can be effectively used to keep to old copy of a stripe safe while
> writing the new copy.
> 
> This sort of conversion is planned, but will take somewhat longer.

Great!

I'm not in a hurry (though perhaps I should be :|).

Max.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-19  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-15 20:02 First RAID Setup Callahan, Tom
2005-12-15 20:22 ` Andargor The Wise
2005-12-15 20:46 ` Brad Campbell
2005-12-15 21:31   ` Tobias Hofmann
2005-12-16  1:51     ` Max Waterman
2005-12-16  8:01       ` Tobias Hofmann
2005-12-16  1:53     ` Neil Brown
2005-12-16  8:08       ` Tobias Hofmann
2005-12-19  1:02         ` Neil Brown
2005-12-19  9:03           ` Max Waterman [this message]
2005-12-16  8:42       ` Gordon Henderson
2005-12-22 14:20   ` Bill Davidsen
2005-12-22 14:24     ` Mattias Wadenstein
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-22 17:03 Andrew Burgess
2005-12-15 21:46 Callahan, Tom
2005-12-15 20:37 Callahan, Tom
2005-12-17  0:00 ` Andargor The Wise
2005-12-17  2:01   ` Andargor The Wise
2005-12-18 22:08     ` Andargor The Wise
2005-12-22 14:27       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-12-22 15:00         ` Andargor The Wise
2005-12-15 19:35 Callahan, Tom
2005-12-15 19:44 ` Andargor The Wise
2005-12-22 14:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-12-15 19:09 Andargor The Wise

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