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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig index fd2aae150ccc..ac25a48362ac 100644 --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig @@ -139,11 +139,12 @@ config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE is online. However it is still EXPERIMENTAL code. It should work, but please be sure that you have backups. - You will need a version of mdadm newer than 2.3.1. During the - early stage of reshape there is a critical section where live data - is being over-written. A crash during this time needs extra care - for recovery. The newer mdadm takes a copy of the data in the - critical section and will restore it, if necessary, after a crash. + You will need mdadm verion 2.4.1 or later to use this + feature safely. During the early stage of reshape there is + a critical section where live data is being over-written. A + crash during this time needs extra care for recovery. The + newer mdadm takes a copy of the data in the critical section + and will restore it, if necessary, after a crash. The mdadm usage is e.g. mdadm --grow /dev/md1 --raid-disks=6 |