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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction - raid5 reshape mark-2
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:23:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060124092303.GD22870@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060124112626.4447.patches@notabene>

On 2006-01-24T11:40:47, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> I am expecting that I will ultimately support online conversion of
> raid5 to raid6 with only one extra device.  This process is not
> (efficiently) checkpointable and so will be at-your-risk.

So the best way to go about that, if one wants to keep that option open
w/o that risk, would be to not create a raid5 in the first place, but a
raid6 with one disk missing?

Maybe even have mdadm default to that - as long as just one parity disk
is missing, no slowdown should happen, right?


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée

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High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business	 -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-24  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-24  0:40 [PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction - raid5 reshape mark-2 NeilBrown
2006-01-24  0:40 ` [PATCH 001 of 7] md: Split disks array out of raid5 conf structure so it is easier to grow NeilBrown
2006-01-24  0:40 ` [PATCH 002 of 7] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array NeilBrown
2006-01-24  0:41 ` [PATCH 003 of 7] md: Infrastructure to allow normal IO to continue while array is expanding NeilBrown
2006-01-24  0:41 ` [PATCH 004 of 7] md: Core of raid5 resize process NeilBrown
2006-01-24  0:41 ` [PATCH 005 of 7] md: Final stages of raid5 expand code NeilBrown
2006-01-24  0:41 ` [PATCH 006 of 7] md: Checkpoint and allow restart of raid5 reshape NeilBrown
2006-01-27 12:37   ` Molle Bestefich
2006-01-24  0:41 ` [PATCH 007 of 7] md: Only checkpoint expansion progress occasionally NeilBrown
2006-01-24  9:23 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2006-01-24  9:32   ` [PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction - raid5 reshape mark-2 Neil Brown
2006-02-07 17:13 ` Henrik Holst
2006-02-09  3:32   ` Neil Brown
2006-02-09  6:35     ` Kernels and MD versions (was: md: Introduction - raid5 reshape mark-2) Patrik Jonsson
2006-02-09 18:07       ` Mr. James W. Laferriere

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