raid5 resizing

2007-12-19 Thread CaT
Hi, I'm thinking of slowly replacing disks in my raid5 array with bigger disks and then resize the array to fill up the new disks. Is this possible? Basically I would like to go from: 3 x 500gig RAID5 to 3 x 1tb RAID5, thereby going from 1tb to 2tb of storage. It seems like it should be, but...

Re: raid5 resizing

2007-12-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of slowly replacing disks in my raid5 array with bigger disks and then resize the array to fill up the new disks. Is this possible? Basically I would like to go from: 3 x 500gig RAID5 to 3 x 1tb RAID5, thereby going from

Re: raid5 resizing

2007-12-19 Thread CaT
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:59:41PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday December 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of slowly replacing disks in my raid5 array with bigger disks and then resize the array to fill up the new disks. Is this possible? Basically I would like to

Re: raid5 resizing

2006-05-01 Thread Mike Hardy
Neil Brown wrote: On Monday May 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks. There's no point in using LVM on a raid5 setup if all you intend to do in the future is resize the filesystem on it, is there? The new raid5 resizing code takes care of providing the extra space and then as long as the say

Re: raid5 resizing

2006-04-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday May 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks. There's no point in using LVM on a raid5 setup if all you intend to do in the future is resize the filesystem on it, is there? The new raid5 resizing code takes care of providing the extra space and then as long as the say ext3 filesystem