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From: Can Jeuleers <can.jeuleers@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Wieser <pwieser@trychlos.org>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Migrating a RAID 5 from 4x2TB to 3x6TB ?
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 07:23:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55767860.5000803@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <167089395.613.1433791723592.JavaMail.zimbra@wieser.fr>

On 08/06/15 21:28, Pierre Wieser wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I currently have an almost full RAID 5 built with 4 x 2 TB disks.
> I wonder if it would be possible to migrate it to a bigger RAID 5
> with 3 x 6TB new disks.

I'd recommend against it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Unrecoverable_read_errors_during_rebuild

Jan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-09  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1419435054.589.1433790714774.JavaMail.zimbra@wieser.fr>
2015-06-08 19:28 ` Migrating a RAID 5 from 4x2TB to 3x6TB ? Pierre Wieser
2015-06-08 20:10   ` Wols Lists
2015-06-09 18:33     ` Pierre Wieser
2015-06-09  5:23   ` Can Jeuleers [this message]
2015-06-09 18:46     ` Pierre Wieser
2015-06-09 19:06       ` Wols Lists
2015-06-09 19:15       ` Roman Mamedov
2015-06-09 18:46     ` Wols Lists
2015-06-09 19:06       ` Another Sillyname
2015-06-09 19:18       ` Can Jeuleers
2015-06-15 11:31       ` Wilson, Jonathan
     [not found]   ` <CAOS+5GHzBgx2DuDe0+RLgZj9Q1BZ944i-9q4NEERq66Sk78b2g@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-09 18:26     ` Pierre Wieser
2015-06-10 19:37   ` Pierre Wieser
2015-06-15 10:46     ` Wilson, Jonathan
2015-06-15 21:45       ` Wols Lists

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