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From: "JaniD++" <djani22@dynamicweb.hu>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Expanding RAID array?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:30:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <024201c61af4$dec2ab40$a400a8c0@dcccs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17356.8228.325002.652805@cse.unsw.edu.au

Hi,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@suse.de>
To: "John Rowe" <rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk>
Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Expanding RAID array?


> On Monday January 16, rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk wrote:
> > I have a 5-disk RAID5 array. Is it possible to add disks to increase the
> > array size and/or convert it to RAID6? (Indeed, what is the status of
> > RAID6?)
>
> - add disks to increase size of raid5
>     Possible offline with raidreconfig
>     Possible online with alpha-quality patches that I am
>       working on today. Will publish for experimentation/testing
>       later this week.  Hopefully stable by late Feb.

This patch will can do also chunksize conversion? :-)
And / or converting from N disk to N disk with different chunksize?

I think i will test it if i can get a copy. :-)

Cheers,
Janos


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-16 15:14 Expanding RAID array? John Rowe
2006-01-16 22:37 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-16 22:48   ` Gordon Henderson
2006-01-16 23:37     ` Jacob Schmidt Madsen
2006-01-17  7:30       ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2006-01-23 14:28     ` Turbo Fredriksson
2006-01-16 23:30   ` JaniD++ [this message]
2006-01-17  0:52     ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17  6:43   ` Brad Campbell

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