>> >> Also, with Linux Software RAID, you can convert the metadata of RAID1 >> to RAID5 to expand a 2 drive RAID1 mirrored array to a 2 drive RAID5 >> degraded array to add another drive to later. I've done this multiple >> times and had no problems with it. > > I thought it wasn't possible to convert raid type. sure it wasn't a > degraded raid5 you started with ? >
I'm quite sure. Read this blog post: http://scott.wallace.sh/2007/04/converting-raid1-to-raid5-with-no-data-loss/ It does indeed work, as I've done it twice now. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
