From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:59:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20050203165934.GU7628@marowsky-bree.de> References: <200502031145.j13Bj1fl016074@terminus.zytor.com> <420253CD.9010505@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420253CD.9010505@zytor.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ruth Ivimey-Cook Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2005-02-03T08:39:41, "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > Yes, right now there is no RAID5->RAID6 conversion tool that I know o= f. Hm. One of the checksums is identical, as is the disk layout of the data, no? So wouldn't mdadm with the right parameters forcing the right super block to be written, and then the missing disk to be hot-added "convert= " this? But yes, I'd recommend a backup before doing so ;-) Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html