On 05/08/16 21:16, Wols Lists wrote: > In my testing of xosview, I've been mucking about with a vm and raid. > xosview is looking quite promising (I've got a few comments about it, > but never mind). > > BUT. In mucking about with raid 1, I increased my raid devices to three. > I now just can NOT convert the array to raid 5! I've been mucking around > with all sorts of things trying to get it to work, but finally two error > messages make things clear. > Following up to myself - suddenly thought "I know what's wrong". So I stopped the array, and of course couldn't access it, it was no longer there. So I assembled but didn't run it, and it worked fine. Simples, once you realise what's wrong - you can ADD devices to a running array, but you can't REMOVE them. Cheers, Wol -- 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
