Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | NeilBrown <> | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:53:10 +1000 | Subject | [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Remove 'experimental' classification from raid5 reshape. |
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I have had enough success reports not to believe that this is safe for 2.6.19.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
### 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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