From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David M. Strang" Subject: Re: RAID-5 Expansion Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:12:36 -0400 Message-ID: <005901c5acd5$fff03130$bd00a8c0@NCNF5131FTH> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Hoover , linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids EMVS supports this -- http://evms.sourceforge.net However, in my experience -- it's really slow; and it was faster for me to backup the data to tape; recreate the raid and restore. It may be faster now; that was under release v2.5.1 David M. Strang ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Hoover To: linux-raid Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:05 PM Subject: RAID-5 Expansion Is the only way to increase the size of a RAID-5 array to push the data somewhere else and create a new array including the new device? This is the only solution I have come across so far. -Pat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html