From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Barre Subject: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20060117174531.27739.patches@notabene> <43CCA80B.4020603@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 2006/1/17, Michael Tokarev : > NeilBrown wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > In line with the principle of "release early", following are 5 patches > > against md in 2.6.latest which implement reshaping of a raid5 array. > > By this I mean adding 1 or more drives to the array and then re-laying > > out all of the data. > > Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? Congratulations Neil, I was really expecting this feature, and will test as soon as possible. IMHO, being able to resize 'online' is really interesting, so I would thank Neil and Steinar much more than I would blame them, Michael :-p. Regarding box crash and process interruption, what is the remaining work to be done to save the process status efficiently, in order to resume resize process ? In my case, I would really wish to trust resizing enough to use it on working env. May I help you ? Anyway, the patchset you submitted appeared to me so clearly, neat and simple, that it looks a piece of cake to make it secure. I know it's wrong, but you know, you can take it as a congratulation for your code quality :-p Regards, F.-E.B.