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[PATCH] 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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 3, 2006
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Expand Up @@ -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
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There should be enough spares already present to make the new
array workable.

If unsure, say Y.

config MD_MULTIPATH
tristate "Multipath I/O support"
depends on BLK_DEV_MD
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