From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: Hot-replace for RAID5 Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 13:45:55 +1000 Message-ID: <20120518134555.3a9ce08b@notabene.brown> References: <4FAB6758.5050109@hesbynett.no> <20120511105027.34e95833@notabene.brown> <4FB43977.8020607@volatilevoid.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/j0q2A4Kp6S8+j5cc8c.z2N3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FB43977.8020607@volatilevoid.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Oliver Martin Cc: patrik@dsl.sk, David Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --Sig_/j0q2A4Kp6S8+j5cc8c.z2N3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 May 2012 01:34:15 +0200 Oliver Martin wrote: > Hi Neil, >=20 > Am 11.05.2012 02:50, schrieb NeilBrown: > > Doing an in-place reshape with the new 3.3 code should work, though wit= h a > > softer "should" than above. We will only know that it is "stable" when= enough > > people (such as yourself) try it and report success. If anything does = go > > wrong I would of course help you to put the array back together but I c= an > > never guarantee no data loss. You wouldn't be the first to test the co= de on > > live data, but you would be the second that I have heard of. >=20 > I guess I'll be taking 2nd place then. I just used it on three live=20 > raid6 arrays, and it worked perfectly. 3 arrays - so you are 2nd, 3rd, and 4th :-) Thanks. I often get failure reports and only more rarely get success reports, so I value them all the more. NeilBrown >=20 > Thanks for your all your awesome work! >=20 > Oliver >=20 > PS: I wasn't subscribed to the list before, so I'm trying to reply to=20 > this via gmane. No idea if this preserves all the list headers - if I=20 > break the thread, that's probably the cause. --Sig_/j0q2A4Kp6S8+j5cc8c.z2N3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBT7XF8znsnt1WYoG5AQI0zxAApdYWtlU2lo/900C8WetPF97Av0RXvi4E 1tNetwEeJXogSqjtoJ9gzPzRfk5lG6QiGf3o+XOOFBaz4XbG2br/KA3o+fzUi99V jaEwc+EJ9Jf0hgn6MvpojqDqtJTkAYe6MFmL244/te0zyebBY/mf4X8y8Z/P4uyp EBL2Ao8T1NRxZIhUNev0Y02dl/JIooPqG7l7JEcmvMjz7mi2MMRmPQXnpVGxGGm+ s9jSGcIHMzhsLVk4aSQFK3gvVfnEYk+MIOjGuNTbjtWYlLvUbcbkPpvUzK9bHz5O xrLlFSvNdELzllsQep19UWG0P4jx6XEPc4QeD8kZjajUVaE3cVYtNa6L7yrKW6Zb suI3v1fC1aJ2nJXfkhHauF54wrhzB2+CK2SFWJ2aSouTUEdDq1DuPjWNELmEm+Qu g7q6OuzRE8vZl6m+Hf6qeawV1hdzv3QODriJFOi7IqCOaVAzYcz4suERMR7b7IRS eByzzK9VnTP3q4W924XoTF6vynrg63nNtnxQJKWYhd20Jry/rCQFhUGXMYp8c7uY +dyJurqyJT3w2oLEZmuJ/eJBGHouldvolp64fFCxSLzh6ObFlM6jNvtI56sLbrQU 9EGSMEkC4U6WoXMyxCbt9ydEHIFey7vT4qjW3lvyZu+xiGmPMO5pfLkso1bLsFnZ d/zlE3nQUg4= =IH3b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/j0q2A4Kp6S8+j5cc8c.z2N3--