Re: Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

[aurfalien@xxxxxxxxx]

yea, it means u never done it yourself.


On Sep 27, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:

> aurfalien@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> so you're giving advice based on what you're read?
>>
>>
> 1) You do not use --grow to add a device.
>
> 2) You do not use --add to grow a device
>
> 3) I did not give advice
>
>
>> know that my advice is stuff i've actually done.
>>
> Oh no doubt. Does that mean you do not make mistakes?
>
> BTW, the question was: Can you convert a RAID0 to a RAID5? and the
> answer is YES from both Neil Brown and Karanbir's post. The only part
> where I was wrong was I thought it was already implemented. If you  
> want
> to call that 'giving advice' then hey, feel free.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 28/09/09 02:12, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Can you convert a RAID0 to a RAID5?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> According to Neil Brown, yes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> erm, that would be quite interesting, since you cant split the  
>>>> raid-0
>>>> without first moving data into some state of sanity first. Can you
>>>> point
>>>> out where Neil says its something that mdraid can do at the  
>>>> moment ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ah sorry, did not read his blog carefully enough.
>>>
>>> http://neil.brown.name/blog/20090817000931
>>>
>>> He had a line about RAID0 to RAID5 when I skimmed over it. Looking
>>> again...it is not implemented yet.
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