Re: new features time-line

2006-10-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday October 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We talked about RAID5E a while ago, is there any thought that this would actually happen, or is it one of the would be nice features? With larger drives I suspect the number of drives in arrays is going down, and anything which offers

Re: new features time-line

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Neil Brown wrote: On Friday October 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious if there are plans for either of the following; -RAID6 reshape -RAID5 to RAID6 migration No concrete plans with timelines and milestones and such, no. I would like to implement both of these but I really

RE: new features time-line

2006-10-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday October 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good to hear. I think when I first built my RAID (a few years ago) I did some research on this; http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=bad+block+replacement+capabilities+mdad m And found stories where bit errors were an issue.

Re: new features time-line

2006-10-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday October 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious if there are plans for either of the following; -RAID6 reshape -RAID5 to RAID6 migration No concrete plans with timelines and milestones and such, no. I would like to implement both of these but I really don't know when I will

RE: new features time-line

2006-10-13 Thread Dan
Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:14 PM To: Dan Subject: Re: new features time-line Not commenting on your overall premise, but I believe bit errors are already logged and rewritten using parity info by md -Mike Dan wrote: I am curious if there are plans for either