Re: RAID online capacity expansion

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Josh You'll need to use vinum as a volume manager first. Wouldn't recommend it at all on a mounted filesystem, this can give you alsorts of worries. I'd think about why you need to grow the volume, esp as any expansion of a RAID set will normally result in poor performance, unless you backup

Re: RAID online capacity expansion

2006-06-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/20/06, Josh Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Has anyone out there successfully done an online expansion of a RAID array in FreeBSD? I've done it twice, both times successfully, and I'm about to do it again. How is it done and with what hardware did it work? From what I can

RAID online capacity expansion

2006-06-20 Thread Josh Endries
Hello, Has anyone out there successfully done an online expansion of a RAID array in FreeBSD? How is it done and with what hardware did it work? From what I can gather, it's not possible. Aside from the fact that fdisk(8) says Editing an existing slice will most likely result in the loss of