From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Christian Nilsson <nikize@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reshape/Grow to fewer but bigger devices
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:28:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130731132858.10c67a46@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHhAHvhek+ObrM3drgyfs3EH6itoyB2WjxkBK2TcmORw0N_STQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:33:46 +0200 Christian Nilsson <nikize@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to find an answer, but my "search fu powers" are now
> coming to a end.
> What i want to do was more or less detailed by Neil in
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=129785210102555
> the section titled "When reshaping an array to fewer devices, allow
> 'size' to be increased"
>
> but just to explain:
> I have a 9 devices in a RAID5
> 6 of these are now 2TB disks (I really love hot replace!)
> while the other 3 are still 1TB disks
>
> I would now like to grow the array to 6x2TB instead of the present 9x1TB.
>
> Is this possible and I just can't find how, or have there just been to
> many other great features instead?
> (I have started a ext4 offline shrink.. but it is a real pain.)
>
Sorry, but this function hasn't been implemented yet.
NeilBrown
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2013-07-30 23:33 ` Reshape/Grow to fewer but bigger devices Christian Nilsson
2013-07-31 3:28 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2013-07-31 8:18 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-07-31 8:36 ` Christian Nilsson
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