2006/1/17, Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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? Congratulations Neil, I was really expecting this feature, and will test as soon as possible. IMHO, being able to resize 'online' is really interesting, so I would thank Neil and Steinar much more than I would blame them, Michael :-p. Regarding box crash and process interruption, what is the remaining work to be done to save the process status efficiently, in order to resume resize process ? In my case, I would really wish to trust resizing enough to use it on working env. May I help you ? Anyway, the patchset you submitted appeared to me so clearly, neat and simple, that it looks a piece of cake to make it secure. I know it's wrong, but you know, you can take it as a congratulation for your code quality :-p Regards, F.-E.B. - 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
