Hi,
I run a 6 drive array with a multitude of drive sizes with 1 drive spare and 1 bay left.
I am running out of space! I want to take my drives past 1TB per drive (currently 500GB~1TB) but want RAID 6 for when the array goes to > 1TB per drive (coming soon)
I have deliberately kept 1 drive as a spare to give me the option of going to raid 6. Is this something mdadm can do? I have
mdadm - v3.1.1 - 19th November 2009
I run gentoo with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r8
Don't know if it is relevant but have lvm on top
LVM version: 2.02.56(1) (2009-11-24)
Library version: 1.02.40 (2009-11-24)
Driver version: 4.11.0
I have seen talk on Neil's site, just not sure if the support is definately there.
If it is would i run something like this
mdadm --grow /dev/md4 --level=6 --raid-disk=7
to convert my 6 drive +1 spare raid 5 to a 7 drive raid 6?
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