On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:33, [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.
Yea, I read this later and made the same discovery, so I'm going to go ahead and start with a 3 disk RAID 5 array which should give me some growing space. If I ever need more for my recording directory I'll just buy new drives, build a new array, move files over, etc. -- thanks, STeve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
