From: Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: very degraded RAID5, or increasing capacity by adding discs
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:44:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071009164436.50dbd7ae@absurd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18186.63033.185101.385806@notabene.brown>
Neil Brown said: (by the date of Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:32:09 +1000)
> On Tuesday October 9, janek_listy@wp.pl wrote:
> >
> > Problems at step 4.: 'man mdadm' doesn't tell if it's possible to
> > grow an array to a degraded array (non existant disc). Is it possible?
>
> Why not experiment with loop devices on files and find out?
>
> But yes: you can grow to a degraded array providing you specify a
> --backup-file.
Thanks! I'll test this on loopback devices :)
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Janek Kozicki |
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-08 19:13 very degraded RAID5, or increasing capacity by adding discs Janek Kozicki
2007-10-08 19:17 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-08 19:26 ` Richard Scobie
2007-10-08 20:08 ` Guy Watkins
2007-10-08 22:25 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-10-08 22:46 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-10-09 1:53 ` Guy Watkins
2007-10-09 3:32 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-09 14:44 ` Janek Kozicki [this message]
2007-10-09 14:56 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2007-10-09 21:52 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-08 22:52 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-09 3:24 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-09 9:48 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-22 9:03 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-10-23 22:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-09 14:42 ` Janek Kozicki
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