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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Raid-5 to Raid-6 conversion?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:17:00 +0000 (UTC)
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By author:    Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
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> 
> 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