On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:17:15AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? I understand > all those words means alot for marketing persons - zero downtime, > online resizing etc, but it is much safer and easier to do that stuff > 'offline', on an inactive array, like raidreconf does - safer, easier, > faster, and one have more possibilities for more complex changes.
Try the scenario where the resize takes a week, and you don't have enough spare disks to move it onto another server -- besides, that would take several days alone... This is the kind of use-case for which I wrote the original patch, and I'm grateful that Neil has picked it up again so we can finally get something working in. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
