[CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

[Christopher Chan]

aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
> so you're giving advice based on what you're read?
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>   
1) You do not use --grow to add a device.

2) You do not use --add to grow a device

3) I did not give advice


> know that my advice is stuff i've actually done.
>   
Oh no doubt. Does that mean you do not make mistakes?

BTW, the question was: Can you convert a RAID0 to a RAID5? and the 
answer is YES from both Neil Brown and Karanbir's post. The only part 
where I was wrong was I thought it was already implemented. If you want 
to call that 'giving advice' then hey, feel free.
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> On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
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>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>     
>>> On 28/09/09 02:12, Christopher Chan wrote:
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>>>       
>>>>> Can you convert a RAID0 to a RAID5?
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> According to Neil Brown, yes.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> erm, that would be quite interesting, since you cant split the raid-0
>>> without first moving data into some state of sanity first. Can you  
>>> point
>>> out where Neil says its something that mdraid can do at the moment ?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Ah sorry, did not read his blog carefully enough.
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>> http://neil.brown.name/blog/20090817000931
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>> He had a line about RAID0 to RAID5 when I skimmed over it. Looking
>> again...it is not implemented yet.
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