Thanks for this Neil, good to know that most of what I would like is
already available. I think your reply highlights what I almost put in
there as my first priority: documentation, specifically a HOWTO.
> I believe that 2.6.18 has SATA hot-swap, so this should be available
> know ... providing you can find out what commands to use.
Exactly!
> > 2 Adding new disks to arrays. Allows incremental upgrades and to take
> > advantage of the hard disk equivalent of Moore's law.
>
> Works for raid5 and linear. Raid6 one day.
Am I misinterpreting the mdadm 2.5 man pages when it says:
Grow (or shrink) an array, or otherwise reshape it in some way.
Currently supported growth options including changing the active
size of component devices in RAID level 1/4/5/6 and changing the
number of active devices in RAID1.
> > 3. RAID level conversion (1 to 5, 5 to 6, with single-disk to RAID 1 a
> > lower priority).
>
> A single disk is large than a RAID1 built from it, so this is
> non-trivial. What exactly do you want to do there.
Single to disk is less important, but adding a third disk to a RAID1
pair to make a RAID5 would be nice as would be adding one or more disks
to a RAID5 to make a RAID6.
John
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