Re: Convert raid5 to raid1?

2005-03-10 Thread Frank Wittig
John McMonagle wrote: Just wonder what happens to the md sequence when I remove the original raid arrays? When I'm done will I have md0,md1 and md2 or md2,md3 and md4? they will have the name you entered when you created the array. after removing one array from the system all arrays will still

Re: Convert raid5 to raid1?

2005-03-10 Thread Brad Campbell
John McMonagle wrote: Was planning to adding a hot spare to my 3 disk raid5 array and was thinking if I go to 4 drives I would be a better off as 2 raid1 arrays considering the current state of raid5. I just wonder about the comment considering the current state of raid5. What might be wrong

RE: Convert raid5 to raid1?

2005-03-10 Thread Guy
McMonagle Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Convert raid5 to raid1? John McMonagle wrote: Was planning to adding a hot spare to my 3 disk raid5 array and was thinking if I go to 4 drives I would be a better off as 2 raid1 arrays considering the current state of raid5. I just wonder about