From: "Magnus Månsson" <ganja@0x63.nu>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reconf raid
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:06:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085087212.16167.8.camel@freya> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16556.37374.166298.3940@cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:09, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday May 20, ganja@0x63.nu wrote:
> > Hello, I have just joined this list and made some reading.
> > What I am looking for is a way to add new hard drives to my raid5 made
> > with mdadm. If have got it right it's not supported, and it's taking
> > some time though people wants to do it in the kernel and not the way
> > raidtools-reconf does it, fully understandable (even though I would like
> > to do it offline).
>
> You can use raidreconfig (or whatever it is called) from raidtools to
> reconfigure an array built with mdadm. The arrays built by mdadm are
> just the same as those built by mkraid - it is just a different tool
> with a different interface.
Ah, ok, thanks for the answer, had no idea reconf worked with it. Is
there any way to build the raidtab from my existing configuration, or do
I have to build it manually? I guess to build it automatically would be
better though a wrongly build raidtab might fuck everything up?
> >
> > So my question is, is there any timeplan for this functionallity? Can I
> > expect to be able to resize my raid5 before winter?
>
> There is no timeplan for anything. It gets done when it gets done,
> depending entirely on who is motivated, how much, how clever they are,
> how busy they are, and things like that.
>
>
> NeilBrown
>
> >
> > My idea was to build a lot of raid5 (like 5 of them) to match that my
> > hard drives have different sizes, and after that use lvm to get one big
> > partition that I can add new drives to and just enlarge.
> >
> > This leads to that I also have to be able to convert raid1 to raid5, if
> > I do not want to move the data on that little part to a temporary disk,
> > that would be possible today, it would be only 70G to move around.
> >
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2004-05-20 9:13 reconf raid Magnus Månsson
2004-05-20 11:09 ` Neil Brown
2004-05-20 21:06 ` Magnus Månsson [this message]
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