From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Janek Kozicki Subject: Re: very degraded RAID5, or increasing capacity by adding discs Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:44:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20071009164436.50dbd7ae@absurd> References: <20071008211313.6cd8bbb5@absurd> <470A846B.9090805@sauce.co.nz> <20071009002550.12b9b26d@absurd> <20071009004636.112c886e@absurd> <18186.63033.185101.385806@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18186.63033.185101.385806@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 :) -- Janek Kozicki |