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Subject: Re: Growing RAID10 with active XFS filesystem
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:18:46 +0000
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On 13/01/18 12:30, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> If I were to suggest an addition to the RAID wiki, it'd be to elaborate
> on the *creation* time tuning a filesystem create tool does with the
> RAID geometry, and to point out that once you grow the RAID, all
> performance bets are off. I've never met a filesystem that would break
> however.

You know me ...

If you read the wiki you'll notice I tend to be very much "pros and
cons. Choose what works for you". This write-up will be very much in the
same vein ...

Cheers,
Wol