Neil Brown wrote:
Growing a raid5 or raid6 by adding another drive is conceptually
possible to do while the array is online, but I have not definite
plans to do this (I would like to). Growing a raid5 into a raid6
would also be useful.
These require moving lots of data around, and need to be able
Mike Hardy wrote:
You're very correct about needing to grow the FS after growing the
device though. Most FS's have tools for that, or there's LVM...
-Mike
I've tested with LVM2 an found, that resizing is not supported at the
moment (newest kernel with FC3).
LVM can only grow by adding PVs to the
Mike, check him out, google him. Man is really open, good/talanted, and
the author of mdadm.
That being said, the dox for it do seem a bit lean, but at least give
it/him a look, ok?
And on other tools, google on that, also. Google is the compuweenies
friend - *usually* works for me. [if you n
On Tuesday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> berk walker wrote:
> > Have you guys seen/tried mdadm 1.90? I am delightfully experiencing the
>
> I believe the mdadm based grow does not work for raid5, but only for
> raid0 or raid1. raidreconf is actually capable of adding disks to raid5
>
Have you guys seen/tried mdadm 1.90? I am delightfully experiencing the
neat issues [read problems] with MY system [sys1], and am too into
myself to be able to take on serious other-probs. The doc [which is
still a tad lite, NB] has a grow command. Understand that your files
exist on/in a f
How does mdadm grow a raid5 array?
Could you please provide an URL to other tools which can perform online
capacity expansion of md raid5 arrays?
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Regards,
Mike T.
berk walker wrote:
Already are, John. mdadm, and two or three others.
b-
John Poirier wrote:
Greets,
A lot of RAID 5 hardware c
berk walker wrote:
Have you guys seen/tried mdadm 1.90? I am delightfully experiencing the
I believe the mdadm based grow does not work for raid5, but only for
raid0 or raid1. raidreconf is actually capable of adding disks to raid5
and re-laying out the stripes / moving parity blocks, etc
You'
Already are, John. mdadm, and two or three others.
b-
John Poirier wrote:
Greets,
A lot of RAID 5 hardware controllers can grow a RAID 5 array (online
capacity expansion). Will this be available in software RAID?
John
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Frank Wittig wrote:
It actually is available.
I've tested it and it worked fine for me. But taking a backup is highly
recommended.
The trick is not to use mdadm, since growing with mdadm is not possible
at the moment. Use raid-tools instead.
The program raidreconf comes along with raidtools. This
It actually is available.
I've tested it and it worked fine for me. But taking a backup is highly
recommended.
The trick is not to use mdadm, since growing with mdadm is not possible
at the moment. Use raid-tools instead.
The program raidreconf comes along with raidtools. This prog takes two
rai
Greets,
A lot of RAID 5 hardware controllers can grow a RAID 5 array (online
capacity expansion). Will this be available in software RAID?
John
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