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From: Laurent CARON <lcaron@unix-scripts.info>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:25:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <443BE6A6.5000202@unix-scripts.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060411145142.GR29446@strugglers.net>

Andy Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:30PM +0200, Shai wrote:
>> I have two SCSI disks on raid1.
>> Since I have lots of reads from that raid, I want to add two more
>> disks to this raid so that read will be faster.
>>
>> How should I add the new disks?
> 
> Is this possible with md currently:
> 
> Create a RAID-10 on the two new disks specifying one disk missing
> from each mirror.
> 
> Then copy data over and add the two existing disks letting it
> resync?

Why not growing the array with 2 more disks?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-11 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-11 14:41 mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more Shai
2006-04-11 14:51 ` Andy Smith
2006-04-11 17:25   ` Laurent CARON [this message]
2006-04-11 20:32     ` Andy Smith
2006-04-11 22:13       ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-12  2:07         ` Guy
2006-04-12 13:22           ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-12  7:18 ` Shai
2006-04-12  8:16   ` Neil Brown
2006-04-12  9:10     ` Shai
2006-04-16 23:36       ` Neil Brown

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