Adding Disks

Hello, Is it possible to add another disk to a striped RAID array? /dev/md0 is a software RAID-5 array composed of: /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 If I run out of space on /dev/md0, can I add another disk, /dev/sde1, to the array? Now, I haven't looked at the RAID code in the

Strange performance results in RAID5

Hi, I have been doing some performance checks on my RAID 5 system. The system is 5 Seagate Cheetahs X15 Linux 2.4.2 I am using IOtest 3.0 on /dev/md0 My chunk size is 1M... When I do random reads of 64K blobs using one process, I get 100 reads/sec, which is the same as doing random reads on

Re: Strange performance results in RAID5

On Thursday March 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been doing some performance checks on my RAID 5 system. Good. The system is 5 Seagate Cheetahs X15 Linux 2.4.2 I am using IOtest 3.0 on /dev/md0 My chunk size is 1M... When I do random reads of 64K blobs using one