From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Shane W <shane-kernel@csy.ca>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Convert v0.9 superblock
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:13:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18578.32572.891292.936426@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Shane W on Wednesday July 30
On Wednesday July 30, shane-kernel@csy.ca wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Can a v0.9 superblock be converted to v1.x without
> recreating a raid5 array? I realize a metadata rebuild
> might be necessary but I don't want to go through a
> complete recreate if that can be avoided.
Not really.
You could probably manage a 0.90 -> 1.0 conversion if you really
wanted to by doing a --create --assume-clean and setting the --size
correctly, but to convert to 1.1 or 1.2 you need to move all the data.
Why do you want to?
NeilBrown
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