From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Convert v0.9 superblock Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:13:00 +1000 Message-ID: <18578.32572.891292.936426@notabene.brown> References: <20080730173022.GA6622@csy.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: message from Shane W on Wednesday July 30 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Shane W Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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