>On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 06:52:47PM -0000, Jim Ford wrote:
>> I was so pleased at the performance of my raid5 setup that I decided to
try
>> adding another disk.

>Your best bet right now probably is to back everything up to tape, build a
>new RAID device, reformat, and restore.

Thanks for the authorative reply, Jakob.
After a lot of trying I came to the above conclusion!

>If you have enough patience (or no tapes ;), then I can give you an
estimate
>this saturday as to when raidreconf will support RAID-5.  But let's keep
that
>off-list.

Fortunately it's all a new installation, so my best bet will be to start
again. I look forward to your future developments on raidreconf.

Software raid is a really impressive development - the output from dmesg is
especially awesome!

Regards: Jim Ford

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