Hello I have a question about RAID 1 volumes set up with bioctl.
When I originally set up the softraid, I created a RAID partition that (essentially) took up the entire drive. However, the disklabel INSIDE the softraid does NOT use the all the space available (e.g. The chunks making up the RAID partition are 120GB, but the disklabel within the RAID only currently uses 60GB of space; so, 60 GB of space have not/will not have any data on them). My question is, if I want to add a new chunk to this array, does it have to be 120GB; or, since I am only using 60GB within the RAID, can I add a new chunk that is only 60GB? And, if so, is there anything special I need to do when adding the smaller chunk? With the falling price of SSD's, I am thinking of replacing the spinning disks with SSD's. It seems I will never need the additional space in the RAID, and it would be cheaper to buy smaller SSD's. Thanks Ted [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
