Devices, was a mistake, I meant to say device. You're wanting to do the same as Ryan. No reason it shouldn't work. Just know that RAID-5 in degraded mode can be kinda slow. -Adam On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:59:19AM -0800, Kourosh Ghassemieh wrote: > > 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
