On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:26:25AM +0000, Kelly Harding wrote: > >> > >> Also, with Linux Software RAID, you can convert the metadata of RAID1 > >> to RAID5 to expand a 2 drive RAID1 mirrored array to a 2 drive RAID5 > >> degraded array to add another drive to later. I've done this multiple > >> times and had no problems with it. > > > > I thought it wasn't possible to convert raid type. sure it wasn't a > > degraded raid5 you started with ? > > > > I'm quite sure. > > Read this blog post: > http://scott.wallace.sh/2007/04/converting-raid1-to-raid5-with-no-data-loss/ > > It does indeed work, as I've done it twice now.
so the blog states to recreate the raid as a 2 disk raid5, just don;t overwrite the information because it is in the same state as a raid5 array with just 2 disks. I thought when you said convert, you were using the --grow command to convert from raid1 to raid5. > > Kelly > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- "I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace." - George W. Bush 10/23/2000 Des Moines, IA
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