From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Is raid6 reshape (grow) supported? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:26:16 +1100 Message-ID: <18674.38312.968462.374912@notabene.brown> References: <3eba0080810091953x443f35b1u4911dee427570f6b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: message from Matt 'Murph' Finnicum on Thursday October 9 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Matt 'Murph' Finnicum Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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