Re: raid5 growing question

2007-10-05 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Shane, Please take the following with some suspicion. I used raidreconf to add drives to an array, so I assume the grow functionality can at least do the same. I wonder: if you have less than 1TB of data then you can: 1 fail one 320GB disk (array now degraded!) 2 use the port to install 1x1TB a

Re: raid5 growing question

2007-10-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Shane wrote: Hello all, I have a raid5 softraid array using 6x320GB SATA drives. I would like to reconfigure it to be 3x1tb SATA. Is there a way to do this using the grow feature of mdadm. IE by swapping 3 of the 320GB drives out for the 3 1TB drives allowing the resync