From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tomas France" Subject: Re: Is it possible to grow a RAID-10 array with mdadm? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:51:03 +0200 Message-ID: <0e5701c7d2a0$0ad0b9c0$332317ac@Cortex> References: <46ABAC5A.2000103@ziu.info><46ABB830.1000204@ziu.info><0dc901c7d20b$be23d100$332317ac@Cortex><18093.42484.733479.935581@notabene.brown><0e3e01c7d293$d85086d0$332317ac@Cortex> <18093.50791.844421.294015@notabene.brown> 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: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Oops... my faul Neil, sorry for that. I must have been reading the man page for an older version. It's all well documented in 2.6.2. I apologize again... Tomas P.S. And I almost forgot - thanks for creating mdadm! It's a powerful stuff for sure. I will soon be playing with it in a live environment...which, looking at all the options and reading the documentation, makes me somewhat scared :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" To: "Tomas France" Cc: Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:07 PM Subject: Re: Is it possible to grow a RAID-10 array with mdadm? > On Monday July 30, tomfra@centrum.cz wrote: >> Thanks for the answer Neil! >> >> >> The man page for mdadm does not mention it because it is not >> >> supported. >> >> << >> >> It doesn't actually even mention the possibility to create a RAID-10 >> array >> (without creating RAID-0 on top of RAID-1 pairs), yet from the info I >> found, >> a lot of people have been using it for quite a while. Almost as if it was >> a >> complete secret ;) As for the RAID-10 growing / layout change - I'd >> absolutely love to see that implemented in the (hopefully near) future. >> IMHO, RAID-10 is becoming very popular because of the falling hard drive >> prices. > > What version of mdadm do you have installed (the bottom of the man > page will tell you). > My v2.6.2 manpage mentions raid10 5 times, and "man md" mentions it 9 > times. > If you have a recent mdadm and there was some particular place in the > man page were you were looking and didn't find raid10, please let me > know and I will try to improve that part of the documentation. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown > >