On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 13:34 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:46:40 +0000, Stroller wrote: > > > > With the RAID, you could fail one disk, repartition, re-add it, > > > rinse and > > > repeat. But that doesn't take care of the time issue. > > > > Aren't you thinking of LVM, or something? > > No. The very nature of RAID is redundancy, so you could remove one disk > from the array to modify its setup then replace it.
so long as you didn't have any non-detectable disk errors before removing the disk, or any drive failure while one of the drives were removed. And the deterioration in performance while each disk was removed in turn might take more time than its worth. Of course RAID 1 wouldn't suffer from this (with >2 disks)... -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Keep on keepin' on.
