Neil Brown wrote:
Converting a raid5 to a raid6 with 2 extra drives (thus having more space as well as more redundancy)
Yeah! That's me :D
is a possibility as the extra space can be effectively used to keep to old copy of a stripe safe while writing the new copy. This sort of conversion is planned, but will take somewhat longer.
Great! I'm not in a hurry (though perhaps I should be :|). Max. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html