Apoligies if this is noise. On Apr 6, 2005 2:56 PM, Milan Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 6, 2005 2:11 PM, dean collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>You also can't 'add drives as time goes by' to a raid 5. > > >> > > >> > > >unless i use the 'missing' trick? > > > > > > > > nope. > > The only way to add drives is an unsupported program called raidreconf > > or using the (supported) EVMS solution. > > Sean's idea of lots of mini-raid5'ed partitions is very interesting > > though. I haven't thought it through. I think you could do it just using > > > > the lvm 'move blocks' approach (ie without needing to repeatedly > > shrink/grow the filesystem - just one growfs at the end). > > I'd rate it as lvm/md experts only (which isn't that hard TBH) > > > > Newbie is getting a fuzzy signal here. Can someone please confirm that > using RAID 5 and LVM one cannot grow a filesystem by adding > a new disk/partition? >
I do mean software raid (md). Reading the archives I've come to understand that hardware (real or fake) raid 5 is a waste of time for most mythtv applications. -- Milan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
