From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161111AbWI2Cy3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:54:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964948AbWI2Cxv (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:53:51 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60087 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023AbWI2CxQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:53:16 -0400 From: NeilBrown To: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:53:10 +1000 Message-Id: <1060929025310.15229@suse.de> X-face: [Gw_3E*Gng}4rRrKRYotwlE?.2|**#s9D Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have had enough success reports not to believe that this is safe for 2.6.19. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/Kconfig | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff .prev/drivers/md/Kconfig ./drivers/md/Kconfig --- .prev/drivers/md/Kconfig 2006-09-29 11:38:03.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/Kconfig 2006-09-29 11:49:16.000000000 +1000 @@ -138,16 +138,16 @@ config MD_RAID456 If unsure, say Y. config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE - bool "Support adding drives to a raid-5 array (experimental)" - depends on MD_RAID456 && EXPERIMENTAL + bool "Support adding drives to a raid-5 array" + depends on MD_RAID456 + default y ---help--- A RAID-5 set can be expanded by adding extra drives. This requires "restriping" the array which means (almost) every block must be written to a different place. This option allows such restriping to be done while the array - is online. However it is still EXPERIMENTAL code. It should - work, but please be sure that you have backups. + is online. You will need mdadm version 2.4.1 or later to use this feature safely. During the early stage of reshape there is @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE There should be enough spares already present to make the new array workable. + In unsure, say Y. + config MD_MULTIPATH tristate "Multipath I/O support" depends on BLK_DEV_MD