From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Assorted md patches headed for 2.6.30 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:42:04 +0100 Message-ID: <4993EEEC.2020901@lfarkas.org> References: <20090212031009.23983.14496.stgit@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090212031009.23983.14496.stgit@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids NeilBrown wrote: > Hi, > following is my current patch queue for 2.6.30, in case anyone would > like to review or otherwise comment. > They should show up in -next shortly. > > Probably the most interesting are the last few which provide support > for converting a raid1 into a raid5, and a raid5 into a raid6. > I plan to do some more work here so the code might change a bit before > final submission, as I work out how best ot factor the code. > > mdadm doesn't current support these conversions, but you can > simply > echo raid5 > /sys/block/md0/md/level > to change a 2-drive raid1 into a raid5. Similarly for 5->6 any plan for non-raid to raid1 or anything else like in windows on can convert a normal partition into a mirrored one online. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"