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

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Sep 28 01:26:11 UTC 2009


Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 28/09/09 02:12, Christopher Chan wrote:
>   
>>> 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.

http://neil.brown.name/blog/20090817000931

He had a line about RAID0 to RAID5 when I skimmed over it. Looking 
again...it is not implemented yet.



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