Neil Brown wrote:
Growing a raid5 or raid6 by adding another drive is conceptually
possible to do while the array is online, but I have not definite
plans to do this (I would like to). Growing a raid5 into a raid6
would also be useful.
These require moving lots of data around, and need to be able
Greets,
A lot of RAID 5 hardware controllers can grow a RAID 5 array (online
capacity expansion). Will this be available in software RAID?
John
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It actually is available.
I've tested it and it worked fine for me. But taking a backup is highly
recommended.
The trick is not to use mdadm, since growing with mdadm is not possible
at the moment. Use raid-tools instead.
The program raidreconf comes along with raidtools. This prog takes two
Frank Wittig wrote:
It actually is available.
I've tested it and it worked fine for me. But taking a backup is highly
recommended.
The trick is not to use mdadm, since growing with mdadm is not possible
at the moment. Use raid-tools instead.
The program raidreconf comes along with raidtools.
Already are, John. mdadm, and two or three others.
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John Poirier wrote:
Greets,
A lot of RAID 5 hardware controllers can grow a RAID 5 array (online
capacity expansion). Will this be available in software RAID?
John
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berk walker wrote:
Have you guys seen/tried mdadm 1.90? I am delightfully experiencing the
I believe the mdadm based grow does not work for raid5, but only for
raid0 or raid1. raidreconf is actually capable of adding disks to raid5
and re-laying out the stripes / moving parity blocks, etc
How does mdadm grow a raid5 array?
Could you please provide an URL to other tools which can perform online
capacity expansion of md raid5 arrays?
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Mike T.
berk walker wrote:
Already are, John. mdadm, and two or three others.
b-
John Poirier wrote:
Greets,
A lot of RAID 5 hardware
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berk walker wrote:
Have you guys seen/tried mdadm 1.90? I am delightfully experiencing the
I believe the mdadm based grow does not work for raid5, but only for
raid0 or raid1. raidreconf is actually capable of adding disks to raid5
and
