I'm interested in this as well. Isn't a RAID-5 array with two missing drives broken? Has anyone actually tried this? I don't have any spare drives to play with to test. The other option is to break the RAID-1, create a new RAID-5 with the two drives and the third, RAID-1, drive as the missing drive in the RAID-5 set. Copy over the data from the RAID-1 drive and then add that drive back into the RAID-5 array and it should rebuild. Any thoughts? Regards, Kourosh At 08:57 AM 2/26/2003, Adam Luter wrote:
Using 'missing' for the device name for the missing devices. -Gryn (Adam Luter) On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:22:13AM -0800, rmack@mackman.net wrote: > I currently have a 2 drive RAID-1 array. I would like to convert it into > a 3 drive RAID-5 array. I'd rather avoid raidreconf because I'v never > used it before. It seems to me, that I should be able to run the existing > RAID-1 in degraded mode (only one drive), and then copy it's contents to a > degraded (only two drive) RAID-5 array. The question, of course, is how > do I create a RAID-5 array in degraded mode? After the copy, I would then > hotadd the other former RAID-1 drive into the RAID-5 and let it > reconstruct the array. > > Any thoughts? Please reply to me directly, I'm off the list for now. > > Thanks, Ryan Mack
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