Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

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Subject: Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?
From: Kelly Harding <kelly.harding@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:26:25 +0000
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>>
>> 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

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