From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Software RAID 5 Resizing and LVM
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:20:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419CE7E9.6040602@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419CE1AC.60007@theserrs.net>
Oh yes :)
It now has an 'add new disk to raid5 array and rebuild parity whilst
keeping your data' feature :)
It has to be done 'offline'.
I'm actually just installing it at the moment.
see:
http://evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/#resizemdreg
also:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=evms-devel&w=2&r=1&s=raid5&q=b
David
Scott Serr wrote:
> I have lvm2 on RAID5. With scratch disks you can do pvmoves to move
> extents off the RAID stripe onto a scratch disk. Then redo the raid
> stripe wider (more disks). Then move the extents back. If you're
> (clever) adding a disk and it's partitioned up a little you can use
> some of the partitions as "scratch" while bringing other partitions
> into the raid.
>
> Does EVMS have something more elegant? That would be nice.
>
> -Scott
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-18 18:20 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-17 23:01 ` Re: [linux-lvm] Software RAID 5 Resizing and LVM Adam K-F
2004-11-18 17:23 ` David Greaves
2004-11-18 17:53 ` Scott Serr
2004-11-18 18:20 ` David Greaves [this message]
2004-11-20 8:38 ` Garrick Staples
2004-11-16 23:29 adam
2004-11-17 16:49 ` David Mohr
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