From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Michael Busby <michael.a.busby@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid5 to another raid level??
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:34:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E600886.9080600@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFsPQ_-i_tdPYoT+AF76c7cKNnmt_Ah6KU8EqnYgx3BcyCYNGg@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/09/2011 22:50, Michael Busby wrote:
> I have found the following and see that you can convert from raid4 to
> raid0 fairly easy
>
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10412231&postcount=20
>
> i have a 2 disk raid5 and want to be able to convert this to raid0, i
> was thinking of adding a extra 2 disk and setting them up as raid0,
> moving the data over then adding the original raid5 disks to the raid0
> setup, but i see that you are unable to add disk to a raid0 setup,
> would it be possible to setup a raid4 with 2 disks and 1 missing, move
> the data from the raid5 to raid4 then add both of the original disks
> to the raid4 the downgrade this to raid0???
Off the top of my head, feeling slightly sozzled (been for a few beers),
this might work, but as your linked post referring to a list reply from
Neil Brown says, you should test first. You could use some USB sticks,
or alternatively loopback devices are ideal for this kind of test.
Cheers,
John.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-01 21:50 Raid5 to another raid level?? Michael Busby
2011-09-01 22:34 ` John Robinson [this message]
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2011-09-01 23:50 Michael Busby
2011-09-02 0:54 ` Michael Busby
2011-09-02 2:19 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-02 9:12 ` Michael Busby
2011-09-02 10:22 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-02 10:35 ` Michael Busby
2011-09-02 12:49 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-02 13:11 ` Michael Busby
2011-09-07 1:07 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-07 16:26 Michael Busby
[not found] ` <CAFsPQ__YdDnJw=qgLAq10vRbNPy4B_EhkV4FU0JAfovxnw9TxQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-10 21:47 ` Michael Busby
2011-10-12 4:10 ` NeilBrown
2011-10-12 9:25 ` Michael Busby
2011-10-12 10:14 ` NeilBrown
2011-10-12 16:01 ` Michael Busby
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