Softraid is not a volume manager. We don't support adding, removing chunks after creation time. I'll take diffs for this however this is pretty far from trivial.
On Oct 23, 2010, at 17:51, "Jean-Francois" <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Sunday 24 October 2010 00:34:53, Tomas Bodzar a C)crit : >> I think that this will solve your hunt for informations ;-) >> http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2010_softraid/softraid.pdf >> >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Jean-Francois <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm having difficulty to understand how softraid works ie. how to add >>> chunks, remove chunks, change and rebuild, add/remove hotspares. >>> >>> The manpages bioctl & softraid only mention basic configuration, but once >>> the raid is working ... any other related docs or man ? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> J-F > > Thanks, it effectively helps to understand how it works, but not yet the > command lines used to add-change-remove-rename chuncks or hotspares. > > At least, I can't figure out how to do it, I just could understand how to > basically set it up, or let say "initialize" a softraid. > > I'm limited to basics, I could'nt yet do advanced configuration of an already > built raid, I could not figure out with available docs (including above > mentionned one) and the man pages. > > Regards
