From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Matt 'Murph' Finnicum <mattfinn@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is raid6 reshape (grow) supported?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:26:16 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18674.38312.968462.374912@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Matt 'Murph' Finnicum on Thursday October 9
On Thursday October 9, mattfinn@gmail.com wrote:
> Can I add a drive and expand a raid6? I know the feature has been
> available for a while for raid5. I've looked around the internet, and
> can't seem to find any up-to-date advice on this subject. I'm assuming
> I can't grow a raid5 into a raid6.
Yes, you can grow a raid6.
You cannot convert a raid5 to a raid6 yet. Hopefully soon, but there
are so many distractions.
NeilBrown
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2008-10-10 2:53 Is raid6 reshape (grow) supported? Matt 'Murph' Finnicum
2008-10-13 0:26 ` Neil Brown [this message]
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