On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
A little bit of background. I have 8 2TB disks, 4 in a current raid5 array,
which will be the donor disks en 4 'new' disk going to form the basis of a
new array. I want to change chunk size and re-format to ext4 to a) optimize
the new array according to the new parameters (stride,stripe-width) and
(possibly) a new ondisk ext4 disk format (new features added since last
time). The old array was 4 disk raid5, the new array will be 8 disk raid6.
Any idea's how best to expand all this?
You didn't mention what kernel and mdadm version you're running.
Anyhow, what I would do is the following:
Create RAID6 with 3 data drives, 1 parity and 1 missing. Do whatever you
need to create the fs etc, and copy the files. When you're satisfied with
the result (checksumming the files etc), destroy the old raid5, add all
the drives to the new raid6, and tell it to --grow to a total of 8 drives.
What will probably happen is that as soon as you add the 4 drives it'll
start to resync onto one of them to restore state to a non-degraded raid6.
I would personally let this complete so you actually have a fully
functional non-degraded raid6 with 5 drives and 3 spares that you then
grow in one go to 8 drives and 0 spares. After this is done you can grow
the fs and hopefully everything should be well.
Personally, I use LVM on top of md, but in your case this wouldn't help
because you want to mkfs the filesystem.
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