On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:39:10PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > 1. Shutdown the RAID5. > > > > 2. Create a RAID10/f2 on top of one drive + missing, ignoring mdadm's > > warnings about an existing array. If I'm not terribly wrong, this > > will give me a degraded RAID10 that still has all my data in place. > > I cannot imagine why you would think that all your data would be in place. > I can assure that it would not. I was thinking it would be a similar case to the one mentioned here: http://scott.wallace.sh/2007/04/14/converting-raid1-to-raid5-with-no-data-loss/ Guess I was wrong. Thanks for the advice. Gilad -- 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
