Neil Brown said: (by the date of Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:10:49 +1100) > - raid5->raid6 conversion. > This is also a fairly commonly asked for feature. I can be one of the first ones to test that :) In my raid5 home backup server I had two failures in one month. First a SATA cable of one drive stopped working, and few weeks later another drive died (hdc: DMA timeout error - ad infinitum, and system stopped responding - trying to read that drive; also smartctl was reporting errors constantly). BTW: I thought that smartctl and mdadm were cooperating together to find out about damaged drives, but apparently it's not the case. Now I feel so uneasy now with this raid5, that I'm going to switch into raid6 ASAP. -- Janek Kozicki | -- 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
