From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:10:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060117141019.GA32232@uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CCA80B.4020603@tls.msk.ru>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:17:15AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? I understand
> all those words means alot for marketing persons - zero downtime,
> online resizing etc, but it is much safer and easier to do that stuff
> 'offline', on an inactive array, like raidreconf does - safer, easier,
> faster, and one have more possibilities for more complex changes.
Try the scenario where the resize takes a week, and you don't have enough
spare disks to move it onto another server -- besides, that would take
several days alone... This is the kind of use-case for which I wrote the
original patch, and I'm grateful that Neil has picked it up again so we can
finally get something working in.
/* Steinar */
--
Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-17 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-17 6:56 [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 001 of 5] md: Split disks array out of raid5 conf structure so it is easier to grow NeilBrown
2006-01-17 14:37 ` John Stoffel
2006-01-19 0:26 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-21 3:37 ` John Stoffel
2006-01-22 22:57 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 002 of 5] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 003 of 5] md: Infrastructure to allow normal IO to continue while array is expanding NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 004 of 5] md: Core of raid5 resize process NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 005 of 5] md: Final stages of raid5 expand code NeilBrown
2006-01-17 9:55 ` Sander
2006-01-19 0:32 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 8:17 ` [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Michael Tokarev
[not found] ` <fd8d0180601170121s1e6a55b7o@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-17 9:38 ` Francois Barre
2006-01-19 0:35 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 9:50 ` Sander
2006-01-17 11:26 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-01-17 11:37 ` Francois Barre
2006-01-17 14:03 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-19 0:28 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 16:08 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-17 16:08 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-17 18:12 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-01-17 18:12 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-01-18 8:14 ` Sander
2006-01-18 8:14 ` Sander
2006-01-18 8:37 ` Brad Campbell
2006-01-18 9:03 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-18 12:46 ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-18 12:51 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-01-18 23:51 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 7:20 ` PFC
2006-01-19 8:01 ` dean gaudet
2006-01-18 23:54 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 0:22 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 0:22 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 9:01 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-01-19 9:01 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-01-17 22:38 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-17 22:57 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 14:10 ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2006-01-17 15:07 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2006-01-19 0:23 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-22 4:42 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-01-22 22:52 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-23 23:02 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-01-23 23:02 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-01-23 1:08 ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-23 1:25 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-23 1:54 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-23 2:09 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2006-01-23 2:33 ` Neil Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-17 21:38 Lincoln Dale (ltd)
2006-01-17 21:38 ` Lincoln Dale (ltd)
2006-01-18 13:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-18 23:19 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 15:33 ` Mark Hahn
2006-01-19 15:33 ` Mark Hahn
2006-01-19 20:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-19 21:22 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-19 21:22 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-19 22:17 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 22:32 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 23:26 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 23:43 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-20 2:17 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-20 10:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 10:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 12:06 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 18:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 18:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 22:09 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 22:09 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21 0:06 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21 0:06 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 18:41 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 17:29 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-20 17:29 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-20 18:36 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 22:57 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 22:57 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21 0:01 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21 0:01 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21 0:03 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21 0:03 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21 0:08 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21 0:08 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21 0:13 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 9:44 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 10:26 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 10:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 10:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 10:45 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 10:45 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 11:00 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 11:00 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 12:54 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-23 12:54 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-23 13:00 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-01-23 13:54 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 17:33 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-23 17:33 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-24 2:02 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-20 7:51 ` Reuben Farrelly
2006-01-20 3:43 ` Andre' Breiler
2006-01-21 0:42 ` David Greaves
2006-01-20 16:48 Hubert Tonneau
2006-01-20 17:01 Hubert Tonneau
2006-01-20 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-22 6:45 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-01-20 18:05 Hubert Tonneau
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