On Mon, September 7, 2009 8:35 pm, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > --- On Sun, 16/8/09, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > ... > >> > >> > (also anyone know if raid5 to raid 6 native support is >> anywhere near?) >> >> Yes. It works with 2.6.30 (or preferrable 2.6.31) and the >> devel-3.1 branch >> from my git tree git://neil.brown.name/mdadm >> >> NeilBrown >> > > I am probably being a bit thick here, but I am running 2.6.8 as per > > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-fs/mdadm > > Does this imply that I already have these features.. as i am pretty sure i > don't (unless it is undocumented) No you don't. 2.6.8 is < 3.1, so your mdadm doesn't have the required support And you need a kernel which is at least 2.6.30. > > I want to add 2 more drives to my array and grow it/reshape from raid 5 to > 6... You'll need to be a bit more patient. 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
