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From: Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: mdadm + raid1 of 2 disks and now need to add more
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:51:43 +0000
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:41:30PM +0200, Shai wrote:
> I have two SCSI disks on raid1.
> Since I have lots of reads from that raid, I want to add two more
> disks to this raid so that read will be faster.
>=20
> How should I add the new disks?

Is this possible with md currently:

Create a RAID-10 on the two new disks specifying one disk missing
=66rom each mirror.

Then copy data over and add the two existing disks letting it
resync?

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