On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:53:31PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: > If I can add drives in after initial creation, I could add in more of my > 320gig drives I have with other media on them, increase write speed a bit and > not worry about losing the other data as well.
You can't increase the number of active devices in a RAID-5 (mdadm) array because the distribution of data and parity is set when the array is first created. To increase the capacity of the array you would need to increase the capacity of all of the constituent devices, "grow" the array to take up the extra space and then resize the hosted filesystem. -- "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis (1935) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
