From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Dan <dan@korstad.net>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new features time-line
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:35:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453592FB.4090105@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17712.10578.16619.929884@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown wrote:
>On Friday October 13, dan@korstad.net wrote:
>
>
>>I am curious if there are plans for either of the following;
>>-RAID6 reshape
>>-RAID5 to RAID6 migration
>>
>>
>
>No concrete plans with timelines and milestones and such, no.
>I would like to implement both of these but I really don't know when I
>will find/make time. Probably by the end of 2007, but that is not a
>promise.
>
We talked about RAID5E a while ago, is there any thought that this would
actually happen, or is it one of the "would be nice" features? With
larger drives I suspect the number of drives in arrays is going down,
and anything which offers performance benefits for smaller arrays would
be useful.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-13 21:53 new features time-line Dan
2006-10-14 0:03 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-18 2:35 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2006-10-19 2:46 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-30 23:19 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] <45300FC5.80806@h3c.com>
2006-10-14 0:14 ` Dan
2006-10-16 5:37 ` Neil Brown
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