Reshape linux md raid5 that is already being reshaped?
- by smammy
I just converted my RAID1 array to a RAID5 array and added a third disk to it. I'd like to add a fourth disk without waiting fourteen hours for the first reshape to complete.
I just did this:
mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdf1
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=3 --backup-file=/root/md0_n3.bak
The entry in /proc/mdstat looks like this:
md0 :…