Neil, thanks for your assistance. I successfully converted 2nd and 3rd array to raid6 with ls-6 layout, --layout=left-symmetric-6 worked as advertised. Reshaping of 1st array finished OK too, even when it did not avoid power outage at last and was hit by one couple of hours before finishing. But it restarted without problem, the array was consistent according check and I also compared important data with backup and they are OK. Patrik On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:45 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012 01:34:15 +0200 Oliver Martin <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Hi Neil, >> >> Am 11.05.2012 02:50, schrieb NeilBrown: >> > Doing an in-place reshape with the new 3.3 code should work, though with a >> > softer "should" than above. We will only know that it is "stable" when enough >> > people (such as yourself) try it and report success. If anything does go >> > wrong I would of course help you to put the array back together but I can >> > never guarantee no data loss. You wouldn't be the first to test the code on >> > live data, but you would be the second that I have heard of. >> >> I guess I'll be taking 2nd place then. I just used it on three live >> raid6 arrays, and it worked perfectly. > > 3 arrays - so you are 2nd, 3rd, and 4th :-) > > Thanks. I often get failure reports and only more rarely get success > reports, so I value them all the more. > > NeilBrown > > >> >> Thanks for your all your awesome work! >> >> Oliver >> >> PS: I wasn't subscribed to the list before, so I'm trying to reply to >> this via gmane. No idea if this preserves all the list headers - if I >> break the thread, that's probably the cause. > -- 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
