> > On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, jtroan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I'm also thinking about adding a fourth drive and try to config it as a > > hot-spare, giving me some extra margin for failure. > > I would recommend you turn your raid5 into raid6 instead of having a > raid5+spare. This can be done with a fairly simple command, without > downtime. > I like the idea of using RAID-6 for / (for all the VMs under /var). (I figure I'll probably still have to do a spare on my RAID-1 device for /boot .) What's the (mdadm?) command to convert an MD from RAID-5 to RAID-6? Thanks..... ======================================================================= John M. Troan <jtroan@xxxxxxxxx> Maintainer: Football Site @ JT-SW.com http://www.jt-sw.com/football Chief of Computer Operations U.S.S. Kitty Hawk / NCC-1659 ======================================================================= -- 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
