Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@xxxxxxx> To: "John Rowe" <rowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:37 PM Subject: Re: Expanding RAID array? > On Monday January 16, rowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have a 5-disk RAID5 array. Is it possible to add disks to increase the > > array size and/or convert it to RAID6? (Indeed, what is the status of > > RAID6?) > > - add disks to increase size of raid5 > Possible offline with raidreconfig > Possible online with alpha-quality patches that I am > working on today. Will publish for experimentation/testing > later this week. Hopefully stable by late Feb. This patch will can do also chunksize conversion? :-) And / or converting from N disk to N disk with different chunksize? I think i will test it if i can get a copy. :-) Cheers, Janos - 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
