From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: new features time-line Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:35:39 -0400 Message-ID: <453592FB.4090105@tmr.com> References: <000a01c6ef12$0030b640$eb00000a@mine3ad5e808fe> <17712.10578.16619.929884@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17712.10578.16619.929884@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: Dan , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979