[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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. > > > You're correct in production kernels - but FYI this feature is now available - it's still experimental (so you need to patch) but the md dev guy is working on it.
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