From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:10:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20060117141019.GA32232@uio.no> References: <20060117174531.27739.patches@notabene> <43CCA80B.4020603@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43CCA80B.4020603@tls.msk.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Tokarev Cc: NeilBrown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:17:15AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? I understand > all those words means alot for marketing persons - zero downtime, > online resizing etc, but it is much safer and easier to do that stuff > 'offline', on an inactive array, like raidreconf does - safer, easier, > faster, and one have more possibilities for more complex changes. Try the scenario where the resize takes a week, and you don't have enough spare disks to move it onto another server -- besides, that would take several days alone... This is the kind of use-case for which I wrote the original patch, and I'm grateful that Neil has picked it up again so we can finally get something working in. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/