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From: Krzysztof Adamski <k-list@adamski.org>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Looking for help how to migrate 2disk RAID1 to 3 disk RAID6
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:51:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1388537511.5058.22.camel@oxygen.netxsys.com> (raw)

I have a system with two drives like this:
/ RAID1 on sda3 and sdb3
/boot RAID1 on sda1 and sdb1

I would like to migrate to
/ RAID6 on sdi3, sdj3 and sdh3
/boot RAID1 on sdi1, sdj1 and sdh1

The /boot already done.
How would I do the migration to RAID6?

The new drives i,j and h are larger then a and b, after the migration I
will reshape the raid to use all the space on the new raid, unless it is
possible to do it in one step.

The reason I want RAID6 and not RAID1 with 3 drives is that later I may
add more drives to the array.

Currently I don't trust any RAID that has only one parity drive, it has
to survive a failure of any two drives. So RAID6 or triple RAID1 are a
minimum.

Thanks in advance,
K


             reply	other threads:[~2014-01-01  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01  0:51 Krzysztof Adamski [this message]
2014-01-01  1:02 ` Looking for help how to migrate 2disk RAID1 to 3 disk RAID6 Pieter De Wit
2014-01-01  4:54   ` Krzysztof Adamski
2014-01-01  7:15     ` Tomas M
2014-01-01 15:02       ` Krzysztof Adamski
2014-01-01 10:33     ` Pieter De Wit
2014-01-01 15:10       ` Krzysztof Adamski
2014-01-01 22:06         ` Pieter De Wit

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