What is the status of the raid5 online resize patch ?

2005-12-01 Thread Francois Barre
Hello all, Surfing on the web I found a patch from Steinar H. Gunderson which implements raid5 resize stuff. (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raidm=112998877619952w=2). It seems like it has been included in the 2.6.14 kernel (http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/14/drivers/md/raid5.c), but I

Re: What is the status of the raid5 online resize patch ?

2005-12-01 Thread Francois Barre
Ok, thanks for your answer. Then I suppose I will have to wait a bit. If I can be of any help for testing and hacking purpose, please let me know. I think I will really *need* this feature by the end of february, 2006. Do you think I have any chance to use it safely by that time ? Best regards,

Re: What is the status of the raid5 online resize patch ?

2005-12-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday December 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks for your answer. Then I suppose I will have to wait a bit. If I can be of any help for testing and hacking purpose, please let me know. I think I will really *need* this feature by the end of february, 2006. Do you think I have any