From: Mike Hardy <mhardy@h3c.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5 resizing
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 05:28:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4455FF02.4050404@h3c.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17493.40381.454128.908875@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday May 1, cat@zip.com.au wrote:
>
>>Hey folks.
>>
>>There's no point in using LVM on a raid5 setup if all you intend to do
>>in the future is resize the filesystem on it, is there? The new raid5
>>resizing code takes care of providing the extra space and then as long
>>as the say ext3 filesystem is created with resize_inode all should be
>>sweet. Right? Or have I missed something crucial here? :)
>
>
> You are correct. md/raid5 makes the extra space available all by
> itself.
Further - even if you don't create the filesystem with the right amount
of extra metadata space for online resizing, you can resize any ext2/3
filesystem offline, and it doesn't take very long. You just use
resize2fsf instead of ext2online
-Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-01 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-01 5:23 raid5 resizing CaT
2006-05-01 5:33 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-01 12:28 ` Mike Hardy [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-19 11:17 CaT
2007-12-19 11:59 ` Neil Brown
2007-12-19 12:23 ` CaT
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