NeilBrown wrote: > Greetings. > > In line with the principle of "release early", following are 5 patches > against md in 2.6.latest which implement reshaping of a raid5 array. > By this I mean adding 1 or more drives to the array and then re-laying > out all of the data. Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? I understand all those words means alot for marketing persons - zero downtime, online resizing etc, but it is much safer and easier to do that stuff 'offline', on an inactive array, like raidreconf does - safer, easier, faster, and one have more possibilities for more complex changes. It isn't like you want to add/remove drives to/from your arrays every day... Alot of good hw raid cards are unable to perform such reshaping too. /mjt - 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
