From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Magnus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5nsson?= Subject: Re: reconf raid Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:06:53 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1085087212.16167.8.camel@freya> References: <1085044407.16167.5.camel@freya> <16556.37374.166298.3940@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16556.37374.166298.3940@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 m= ade > > with mdadm. If have got it right it's not supported, and it's takin= g > > some time though people wants to do it in the kernel and not the wa= y > > raidtools-reconf does it, fully understandable (even though I would= like > > to do it offline). >=20 > 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 d= o I have to build it manually? I guess to build it automatically would be better though a wrongly build raidtab might fuck everything up? > >=20 > > So my question is, is there any timeplan for this functionallity? C= an I > > expect to be able to resize my raid5 before winter? >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > NeilBrown >=20 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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 d= isk, > > that would be possible today, it would be only 70G to move around. > >=20 > > --=20 > > Magnus M=E5nsson > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rai= d" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - > 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 --=20 Magnus M=E5nsson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html