Re: raid 5 question

["Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Marcus Schommer wrote:
> hello,
> is an existing raid5 array expandable in the way lvm is,
> so that i can add a disk, repartition and expand the file system on it?

Well, yes and no.

raidreconf (http://unthought.net/raidreconf) will do what you are asking,
so that makes it a "yes".  But the conversion can take considerable time
(a full day or more is not unheard of) - since you should take a full
backup of your system anyway, maybe the fastest solution would be to
simply get the backup done, re-create the array, and restore.

If your system has a lot of memory, it is possible that raidreconf is
faster.

In any case, I would be interested in hearing your experiences if you
decide to try out raidreconf.


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