Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 03:04, Michael Bellears wrote: >> Wouldn't Reiser just be seeing the array as a single drive though? > > Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but I'm assuming > you're using a hardware RAID board?
Yes - Smart Array 6400 > > As long as you're using a hardware board, and you can somehow > dynamically increase the size of the partition, I don't see > you having a problem. The only possible complication is that > the filesystem must be unmounted before it can be resized. So > if you need constant access to the filesystem, I don't think > there's much you can do. But if you can afford a minute or > two of downtime for the drive, it should be no problem. Just > use resize_reiserfs and resize the fs to fit the partition. > Hope that helps. Thanks for the info - I'll def. look into resize_reserfs and friends.. I also came across LVM (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html) - Can anyone comment on the effectiveness/stability and if it would be appropriate to my situation?..It certainly looks interesting. Regards, MB
