Re: RAID-0 - RAID-5

2000-04-28 Thread Benno Senoner
Jakob Østergaard wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mika Kuoppala wrote: [snip] I think Jakob Østergaard has made raid-reconf utility which you can use to grow raid0 arrays. But i think i didn't support converting from raid0 to raid5. Or perhaps it alraeady does =? :) It doesn't (yet).

Re: RAID-0 - RAID-5

2000-04-28 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Benno Senoner wrote: ... Sorry , I am not very up to date: do you plan both, an increase of the individual partitions, and resizing by adding more disks ? I mostly thought of just adding more disks. But resizing partitions ought to be fairly straight forward. Of

RAID-0 - RAID-5

2000-04-27 Thread Tuomas Toivonen
I have an existing RAID-0 device that I would like to convert to RAID-5. I've done the necessary changes to my /etc/raidtab, but mkraid fails because (I assume) it finds an existing persistent superblock on the old RAID-0 partitions. So my question becomes: How does one erase the raid

Re: RAID-0 - RAID-5

2000-04-27 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Tuomas, On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Tuomas Toivonen wrote: I've done the necessary changes to my /etc/raidtab, but mkraid fails because (I assume) it finds an existing persistent superblock on the old RAID-0 partitions. So my question becomes: How does one erase the raid persistent superblock

Re: RAID-0 - RAID-5

2000-04-27 Thread Mika Kuoppala
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Tuomas Toivonen wrote: I have an existing RAID-0 device that I would like to convert to RAID-5. I've done the necessary changes to my /etc/raidtab, but mkraid fails because (I assume) it finds an existing persistent superblock on the old RAID-0 partitions. So my

Re: RAID-0 - RAID-5

2000-04-27 Thread m . allan noah
This is where I am encountering problems. mkraid reports: DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md1 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure! handling MD device /dev/md1 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/sda6, 530113kB, raid superblock at 530048kB disk 1: /dev/sdb6, 530113kB, raid superblock at

Re: RAID-0 - RAID-5

2000-04-27 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mika Kuoppala wrote: [snip] I think Jakob Østergaard has made raid-reconf utility which you can use to grow raid0 arrays. But i think i didn't support converting from raid0 to raid5. Or perhaps it alraeady does =? :) It doesn't (yet). And unfortunately, with examns