On 01/04/2014 05:24 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: > Side note: If you have a live spare available for a raid5, there's no > good reason not to reshape to a raid6, and very good reasons to do so. I used to have a setup like that (i.e. RAID5 + spare), and my reason was power consumption and heat dissipation, since the spare was spun down. Jan -- 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