Re: [PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction - raid5 reshape mark-2

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2006-01-24T11:40:47, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am expecting that I will ultimately support online conversion of
> raid5 to raid6 with only one extra device.  This process is not
> (efficiently) checkpointable and so will be at-your-risk.

So the best way to go about that, if one wants to keep that option open
w/o that risk, would be to not create a raid5 in the first place, but a
raid6 with one disk missing?

Maybe even have mdadm default to that - as long as just one parity disk
is missing, no slowdown should happen, right?


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée

-- 
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business	 -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/