From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Can Jeuleers <can.jeuleers@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Recovering an Array with inconsistent Superblocks
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:59:14 +0100
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On 01/04/2014 05:24 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> Side note: If you have a live spare available for a raid5, there's no
> good reason not to reshape to a raid6, and very good reasons to do so.

I used to have a setup like that (i.e. RAID5 + spare), and my reason was
power consumption and heat dissipation, since the spare was spun down.

Jan