On Sun 19 Apr 2015 10:43:32 AM Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > problem. I was just curious as to how long an actual raid5->raid6 > > reshape would normally be or this setup. I expect it normally can take a > > while as it has to rewrite a lot of data (11TiB worth). > > In my experience it takes 5-15 times longer than a normal resync takes, to > reshape from raid5->raid6. So for your 3TB disk size case, I'd say expect > 4-8 days or so. Ah. Good to know. mdstat was saying about 4-5 days. I kindof thought that was about normal given the amount of work involved to restripe all drives and calculate parity. Thanks :) -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
