From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Martin Subject: Re: Hot-replace for RAID5 Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 01:34:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4FB43977.8020607@volatilevoid.net> References: <4FAB6758.5050109@hesbynett.no> <20120511105027.34e95833@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120511105027.34e95833@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: patrik@dsl.sk, David Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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.