On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:17:15PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:10:16 +0200 Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:47:26AM -0300, Roberto Spadim wrote: > > > raid10 with other layout i could expand? > > > > My understanding is that you currently cannot expand raid10. > > but there are things in the works. Expansion of raid10,far > > was not on the list from neil, raid10,near was. But it should be fairly > > easy to expand raid10,far. You can just treat one of the copies as your > > refence data, and copy that data to the other raid0-like parts of the > > array. I wonder if Neil thinks he could leave that as an exersize for > > me to implement... I would like to be able to combine it with a > > reformat to a more robust layout of raid10,far that in some cases can survive more > > than one disk failure. > > > > I'm very happy for anyone to offer to implement anything. > > I will of course require the code to be of reasonable quality before I accept > it, but I'm also happy to give helpful review comments and guidance. > > So don't wait for permission, if you want to try implementing something, just > do it. > > Equally if there is something that I particularly want done I won't wait for > ever for someone else who says they are working on it. But RAID10 reshape is > a long way from the top of my list. Hi Neil! Yes, that is how I understand your policy on contributions. Do you by RAID10 reshaping also mean RAID10 expansion? In my eyes this is quite important, and something that I have wanted for a long time. I think it is a quite common task for many Linux MD users. best regards keld -- 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
