On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Stefan Roese wrote:
I'm currently in the process of converting a 3 disk RAID5 array into a 4 disk
RAID5 array. I'm using mdadm 3.1.4 and Linux kernel 2.6.35-28-generic
(Ubuntu). My questions now is this conversion save in a live (running) system?
Or is this now allowed/supported?
I guess you wanted to say "4 disk RAID6 array"?
In that case, yes, I have done it on 2.6.32 and mdadm version (something
older) and it went just fine.
Neil wrote about it here <http://neil.brown.name/blog/20090817000931>.
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