On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 05:54:38PM -0400, Nick Nobody wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 17:27 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:01:28PM -0400, Nick Nobody wrote: > > > I've said it before and I'll say it again, Linux software RAID is > > > awesome! > > > > > > A few weeks ago I had a disk die in my NAS (1 of 3 1.5TB Seagate > > > drives). No problem, mdadm emailed me saying the RAID5 array was > > > degraded so I picked up a new disk (Western Digital this time) and > > > within a few hours the array was re-synced and running at full speed. > > > > > > I RMA'd the dead disk and got the replacement back last week. Over the > > > weekend I added it to the array and used mdadm's "grow" feature to get > > > access to the extra 1.5TB of space. A little over 2 days later it was > > > done growing the array without any issues. > > > > I do wonder how you managed to allocate parts of the various copies of > > the RAID drive onto the new physical drive. Or was it a third redundant > > drive? > > At this point I had a working RAID5 array with 3 disks. The procedure > for adding a disk is the following:
Ah! I should have guessed. RAID5. Cool that it was so simple, though. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
