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.

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