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From: Marco Shaw <marco@nbnet.nb.ca>
Subject: Re: RAID5 reconfig
Date: 28 Dec 2002 08:39:27 -0400
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On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 21:25, TJ wrote:
> Do the current raidtools allow enlarging a RAID 5 array by adding more disks
> to it without initializing a new
> array? This feature is found in some hardware raid controllers.

Use with extreme care:
http://unthought.net/raidreconf/index.shtml

Someone posted a success story on this list a few weeks ago using a
pretty big RAID5 volume/array.

Marco

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