Neil Brown wrote:
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
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 per
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 don
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=en&q=bad+block+replacement+capabilities+mdad
> m
>
> And found stories where bit errors were an issue.
> http:
--Original Message-
From: Mike 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:
>
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 find/
I am curious if there are plans for either of the following;
-RAID6 reshape
-RAID5 to RAID6 migration
Here is why I ask, and sorry for the length.
I have an aging RAID6 with eight 250G drives as a physical volume in a
volume group. It is at about 80% capacity. I have had a couple drives fail
an
