From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>
Subject: Re: First RAID Setup
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:03:32 +0800
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Neil Brown wrote:
>
> Converting a raid5 to a raid6 with 2 extra drives (thus having more
> space as well as more redundancy)

Yeah! That's me :D

> is a possibility as the extra space
> can be effectively used to keep to old copy of a stripe safe while
> writing the new copy.
> 
> This sort of conversion is planned, but will take somewhat longer.

Great!

I'm not in a hurry (though perhaps I should be :|).

Max.