From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Hardcastle Subject: Re: Raid 5 to 6 is it do-able/safe? Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:19:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <945589.91133.qm@web51308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: Reply-To: Jon@eHardcastle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jon@eHardcastle.com, Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --- On Tue, 29/12/09, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > From: Mikael Abrahamsson > Subject: Re: Raid 5 to 6 is it do-able/safe? > To: Jon@eHardcastle.com > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > Date: Tuesday, 29 December, 2009, 12:08 > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Jon Hardcastle > wrote: >=20 > > I run gentoo with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 > > > > to convert my 6 drive +1 spare raid 5 to a 7 drive > raid 6? >=20 > No, you need at least kernel 2.6.32 to migrate from raid5 > to raid6. >=20 > --=20 > Mikael Abrahamsson=A0 =A0 email: swmike@swm.pp.se > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at=A0 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >=20 Ok, Cheers for your help guys! I have spent the week getting system/world u= p to date on my gentoo system and that included the kernel! Unfortuntely the latest non-masked gentoo-sources kernel is 2.6.31-r7 w= hich is what i now have are you certain it is .32 i need? I can get 2.6= =2E32-r1 but it is masked currently.... anyone got an experience with t= his? Cheers. =20 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html