raidreconf / growing raid 5 doesn't seem to work anymore

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Hardy
Hello all - This is more of a cautionary tale than anything, as I have not attempted to determine the root cause or anything, but I have been able to add a disk to a raid5 array using raidreconf in the past and my last attempt looked like it worked but still scrambled the filesystem. So, if

Re: raidreconf / growing raid 5 doesn't seem to work anymore

2005-04-03 Thread David Greaves
Just to re-iterate for the googlers... EVMS has an alternative raid5 grow solution that is active, maintained and apparently works (ie someone who knows the code actually cares if it fails!!!) It does require a migration to EVMS and it has limitations which prevented me from using it when I