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
next prev 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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