online RAID5 Reshaping

[martin f krafft]

also sprach tom hall <thattommyhall at gmail.com> [2006.09.22.2033 +0200]:
> is online RAID5 reshaping still marked experimental?

Not really.

> is there an easy way to get it in debian?

It's available in mdadm 2.5 and up, so if you run testing/unstable,
you can do it; it'll be in etch.

> does this version of mdadm handle it?

I don't know what "this" you're referring to. Right now, there are
four versions of mdadm in Debian.

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