Re: Swapping out for larger disks

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

David Greaves wrote:

>> I was more wondering about the feasibility of using dd to copy the drive
>> contents to the larger drives (then I could do 5 at a time) and working
>> it from there.

> Err, if you can dd the drives, why can't you create a new array and use xfsdump
> or equivalent? Is downtime due to copying that bad?

I can only do 5 at a time. (10 slots, 5 source - 5 destination).

I'm not worried about the downtime so much as the constant swapping of disks. This way I can do it 
in 2 or 3 blocks at most.


Brad
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