2006-09-29 02:54:29

by NeilBrown

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Subject: [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Remove 'experimental' classification from raid5 reshape.


I have had enough success reports not to believe that this
is safe for 2.6.19.


Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[email protected]>

### Diffstat output
./drivers/md/Kconfig | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff .prev/drivers/md/Kconfig ./drivers/md/Kconfig
--- .prev/drivers/md/Kconfig 2006-09-29 11:38:03.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/Kconfig 2006-09-29 11:49:16.000000000 +1000
@@ -138,16 +138,16 @@ config MD_RAID456
If unsure, say Y.

config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE
- bool "Support adding drives to a raid-5 array (experimental)"
- depends on MD_RAID456 && EXPERIMENTAL
+ bool "Support adding drives to a raid-5 array"
+ depends on MD_RAID456
+ default y
---help---
A RAID-5 set can be expanded by adding extra drives. This
requires "restriping" the array which means (almost) every
block must be written to a different place.

This option allows such restriping to be done while the array
- is online. However it is still EXPERIMENTAL code. It should
- work, but please be sure that you have backups.
+ is online.

You will need mdadm version 2.4.1 or later to use this
feature safely. During the early stage of reshape there is
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE
There should be enough spares already present to make the new
array workable.

+ In unsure, say Y.
+
config MD_MULTIPATH
tristate "Multipath I/O support"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD


2006-09-29 04:24:59

by Jeff Breidenbach

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Remove 'experimental' classification from raid5 reshape.

Typo in last line of this patch.

> + In unsure, say Y.

2006-10-02 08:07:47

by David Greaves

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Remove 'experimental' classification from raid5 reshape.

Typo in first line of this patch :)

> I have had enough success reports not^H^H^H to believe that this
> is safe for 2.6.19.