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From: Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: patrik@dsl.sk, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot-replace for RAID5
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 01:34:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB43977.8020607@volatilevoid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120511105027.34e95833@notabene.brown>

Hi Neil,

Am 11.05.2012 02:50, schrieb NeilBrown:
> Doing an in-place reshape with the new 3.3 code should work, though with a
> softer "should" than above.  We will only know that it is "stable" when enough
> people (such as yourself) try it and report success.  If anything does go
> wrong I would of course help you to put the array back together but I can
> never guarantee no data loss.  You wouldn't be the first to test the code on
> live data, but you would be the second that I have heard of.

I guess I'll be taking 2nd place then. I just used it on three live 
raid6 arrays, and it worked perfectly.

Thanks for your all your awesome work!

Oliver

PS: I wasn't subscribed to the list before, so I'm trying to reply to 
this via gmane. No idea if this preserves all the list headers - if I 
break the thread, that's probably the cause.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-16 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-08  9:10 Hot-replace for RAID5 Patrik Horník
2012-05-10  6:59 ` David Brown
2012-05-10  8:50   ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-10 17:16   ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-11  0:50     ` NeilBrown
2012-05-11  2:44       ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-11  7:16         ` David Brown
2012-05-12  4:40           ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-12 15:56             ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-12 23:19               ` NeilBrown
2012-05-13  7:43                 ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-13 21:41                   ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-13 22:15                     ` NeilBrown
2012-05-14  0:52                       ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-15 10:11                         ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-15 10:43                           ` NeilBrown
     [not found]                             ` <CAAOsTSmMrs2bHDbFrND4-iaxwrTA0WySd_AVaK+KXZ-XZsysag@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                               ` <20120515212820.14db2fd2@notabene.brown>
2012-05-15 11:56                                 ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-15 12:13                                   ` NeilBrown
2012-05-15 19:39                                     ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-15 22:47                                       ` NeilBrown
2012-05-16  5:51                                         ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-16 23:34       ` Oliver Martin [this message]
2012-05-18  3:45         ` NeilBrown
2012-05-19 10:40           ` Patrik Horník
2012-05-21  9:54           ` Asdo
2012-05-21 10:12             ` NeilBrown

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