Am 02.06.19 um 11:22 schrieb Kai Stian Olstad: > On 01.06.2019 18:03, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> problem is that you can't switch layouts and given that "near" is >> default when you setup a distribution with RAID10 in the installer you >> get that > > Are you sure, in the mdadm man page it says the following about grow > > Currently the supported changes include > * change the chunk-size and layout of RAID0, RAID4, RAID5, RAID6 and RAID10. pretty sure, there are limits and switch from near to far is one of them as far as i remember i investigated that back in 2016 when i realized that far exists at all while prepare build the NFS sverer and looking what filesystem and raid options are there for a RAID10+LUKS setup in that case all was easier because the HP microserver boots from a micro-sd on the board, so no pojnt to deal with RAID in the installer at all