On Wednesday February 6, davidsen@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >> 4. Would it be possible to later '--grow' the array to use 4 discs in > >> raid10 ? Even with far=2 ? > >> > >> > > > > No. > > > > Well.... if by "later" you mean "in five years", then maybe. But the > > code doesn't currently exist. > > > > That's a reason to avoid raid10 for certain applications, then, and go > with a more manual 1+0 or similar. Not really. You cannot reshape a raid0 either. > > Can you create a raid10 with one drive "missing" and add it later? I > know, I should try it when I get a machine free... but I'm being lazy today. Yes, but then the array would be degraded and a single failure could destroy your data. 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
