From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Bowes Subject: Re: Convert RAID5 to RAID6<--correction? Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 17:10:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I did of course mean RAID5 to RAID*6*. Subject corrected. R. Robin Bowes said the following on 30/09/2005 17:16: > OK, > > Based on some comments I've received following my previous post about > large storage arrays, and having read around a bit, I think my 6-disk > 1TB array would be better as RAID6 rather than RAID5 plus hot spare. > > Is it possible to convert from RAID5 to RAID6? Or would I have to dump > the whole array to tape, trash it, create the RAID6 array and restore > from tape? > > Thanks, > > R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?