From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid-5 to Raid-6 conversion?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:17:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4crks$oub$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 405462FF.3000205@wasp.net.au
Followup to: <405462FF.3000205@wasp.net.au>
By author: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> The crux of this is I'm going to max out my hardware capacity and add an extra 3 drives to this
> array (Trusting my life to raidreconf to expand the array).
> Is it feasible to at a later time add an extra disk and convert the raid-5 to a raid-6 on the fly ?
>
It should be theoretically possible, but there is currently no code to do it.
-hpa
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2004-03-14 13:49 Raid-5 to Raid-6 conversion? Brad Campbell
2004-03-30 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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