Re:

[Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>        Thanks, Neil.  I guess I'll just tear it down and rebuild.  Debian
> "Squeeze" is definitely not ready for prime time, and I don't think even it
> supplies kernel 2.6.32 or mdadm 3.1.1.  Oh, well.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neil Brown [mailto:neilb@suse.de]
>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 7:53 PM
>> To: Leslie Rhorer
>> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re:
>>
>> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 19:37:15 -0600
>> "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I am running mdadm 2.6.7.2-1, and 2.6.7.2-3 is available under my
>> distro.
>> > Do either of these versions support reshaping an array from RAID5 to
>> RAID6?
>>
>> No
>>
>> > Does any later version?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>> You need mdadm-3.1.1 plus linux 2.6.32.
>>
>> NeilBrown
>>
>> >
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What are you talking about?  Have you not synced to the online
repository?  I grabbed this out of the Package.bz2 file.

(Yes, BTW, they should probably have a bug filed to get mdadm 3.1
included before the freeze...)

Package: mdadm
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 1064
Maintainer: Debian mdadm maintainers <pkg-mdadm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.0.3-2
Replaces: mdctl
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.3), udev | makedev, debconf (>= 1.4.72),
lsb-base (>= 3.1-6)
Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent, module-init-tools
Conflicts: initramfs-tools (<< 0.65), mdctl (<< 0.7.2), raidtools2 (<<
1.00.3-12.1)
Filename: pool/main/m/mdadm/mdadm_3.0.3-2_i386.deb
Size: 418426
MD5sum: ab27fb8bfde438bc76dcb42ce8717626
SHA1: a89f1b90ac08bcf29c6c49cc310db0823edf8562
SHA256: 5f9fae56cba6aa6dbb747ddf86402615319d32f3d692da64a818f0f1fab399af
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
 The mdadm utility can be used to create, manage, and monitor MD
 (multi-disk) arrays for software RAID or multipath I/O.
 .
 This package automatically configures mdadm to assemble arrays during the
 system startup process. If not needed, this functionality can be disabled.
Homepage: http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm
Tag: admin::boot, admin::configuring, hardware::storage,
implemented-in::c, implemented-in::shell, interface::commandline,
interface::daemon, role::program, scope::utility, use::configuring,
use::monitor


Package: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686
Priority: optional
Section: kernel
Installed-Size: 74220
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.32-5
Provides: linux-image, linux-image-2.6, linux-modules-2.6.32-trunk-686
Depends: module-init-tools, initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | linux-initramfs-tool
Pre-Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0
Recommends: firmware-linux-free (>= 2.6.32), libc6-i686
Suggests: linux-doc-2.6.32, grub | lilo
Conflicts: initramfs-tools (<< 0.55)
Filename: pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686_2.6.32-5_i386.deb
Size: 26282748
MD5sum: 776c9e57322b9e154bcc0518a9224df3
SHA1: 210cc48a91120ebd36cb20d9516e6e34e4c52da4
SHA256: bf8e8936cacf902b09dde1950bf10dcf50b1cceeeb4d1c351250a5c13da42e83
Description: Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
 The Linux kernel 2.6.32 and modules for use on PCs with Intel Pentium
 Pro/II/III/4/4M/D/M, Xeon, Celeron, Core or Atom; AMD K6, Geode LX/NX,
 Athlon (K7), Duron, Opteron, Sempron, Turion or Phenom; Transmeta
 Efficeon; VIA C3 "Nehemiah" or C7 processors.
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