NeilBrown wrote: > Hi, > following is my current patch queue for 2.6.30, in case anyone would > like to review or otherwise comment. > They should show up in -next shortly. > > Probably the most interesting are the last few which provide support > for converting a raid1 into a raid5, and a raid5 into a raid6. > I plan to do some more work here so the code might change a bit before > final submission, as I work out how best ot factor the code. > > mdadm doesn't current support these conversions, but you can > simply > echo raid5 > /sys/block/md0/md/level > to change a 2-drive raid1 into a raid5. Similarly for 5->6 any plan for non-raid to raid1 or anything else like in windows on can convert a normal partition into a mirrored one online. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" -- 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
