On Friday September 30, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > OK, > > Based on some comments I've received following my previous post about > large storage arrays, and having read around a bit, I think my 6-disk > 1TB array would be better as RAID6 rather than RAID5 plus hot spare. > > Is it possible to convert from RAID5 to RAID6? Or would I have to dump > the whole array to tape, trash it, create the RAID6 array and restore > from tape? It's possible that raidreconf might support raid6, but apart from that - No. Dump-and-restore is probably the best option if it is practical. I hope to get online-reconf from raid5 to raid6 working after the online raid5 resize has stablised. But that is a little way off yet. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
