From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Janek Kozicki Subject: Re: Roadmap for md/raid ??? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:12:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20081230191250.70701c5c@absurd> References: <18763.7881.300921.177207@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18763.7881.300921.177207@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown said: (by the date of Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:10:49 +1100) > - raid5->raid6 conversion. > This is also a fairly commonly asked for feature. I can be one of the first ones to test that :) In my raid5 home backup server I had two failures in one month. First a SATA cable of one drive stopped working, and few weeks later another drive died (hdc: DMA timeout error - ad infinitum, and system stopped responding - trying to read that drive; also smartctl was reporting errors constantly). BTW: I thought that smartctl and mdadm were cooperating together to find out about damaged drives, but apparently it's not the case. Now I feel so uneasy now with this raid5, that I'm going to switch into raid6 ASAP. -- Janek Kozicki |