From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "JaniD++" Subject: Re: Expanding RAID array? Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:30:37 +0100 Message-ID: <024201c61af4$dec2ab40$a400a8c0@dcccs> References: <1137424449.3953.38.camel@kenny> <17356.8228.325002.652805@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, rowe@excc.ex.ac.uk List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" To: "John Rowe" Cc: 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