Ok, thanks for your answer. Then I suppose I will have to wait a bit. If I can be of any help for testing and hacking purpose, please let me know. I think I will really *need* this feature by the end of february, 2006. Do you think I have any chance to use it safely by that time ? Best regards, F.-E. Barre. 2005/12/1, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>: > On Thursday December 1, francois.barre@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Surfing on the web I found a patch from Steinar H. Gunderson which > > implements raid5 resize stuff. > > (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=112998877619952&w=2). > > It seems like it has been included in the 2.6.14 kernel > > (http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/14/drivers/md/raid5.c), but I > > No, it hasn't been included. The raid5 changes reflected at that url > are mostly 'bitmap write-intent log' which optionally accelerates > resync speed at a small cost of write speed. > > > would be sure : > > - Is it really reliable ? Did you test it strongly enough to put the > > 'I trust it' label on it ? > > - Does it implement crash recovery now ? > > - Did anyone test a multiple growth (add 1 disk, then another, then...). > > > > However, I expect to have time to complete the very good work that > Steinar started early in the new year. It will not be submitted to > -mm until it implements crash recovery and has been tested for > multiple growth and other scenarios. > It will not go to -linus until it has been tested quite thoroughly > (preferably by more than just me) and I would feel comfortable using > it on my data. > > I look forward you getting your test results after it is in -mm :-) > > 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
