On 01/04/2014 12:59 PM, Can Jeuleers wrote: > 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. Ok. I can understand that. It wouldn't meet *my* definition of a "good" reason, though. Phil -- 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
