Hi all, I understand, that a change from RAID5 to RAID6 by adding a single disk - eg. keeping the number of data disks - requires a backup file throughout the whole reshape process. For a larger, multi-TB array this means millions of writes to the backup file, which - if i'm correct - means means millions of writes to the same physical sectors of the disk that holds the backup file. Is this not problematic? How many write operations can a typical drive tolerate nowadays? (on the same sectors) Cheers, Peter -- 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
