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From: "Lars Täuber" <taeuber@bbaw.de>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Russ Hammer <russ@perneus.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to grow RAID1 mirror on top of LVM?
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:10:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505091052.e6389586.taeuber@bbaw.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18461.39961.921994.904814@notabene.brown>

Hi there!

Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> schrieb:
> The only possible problem area in your recipe is if the drives are not
> actually identical (not all 750GB drive have the same number of
> blocks), the array you get with the -G command might be too big to
> allow the partition you create on the new sda.  However if the drives
> do have exactly the same number of sectors, this will not be a problem.

I think this problem is not true if you grow the array after including the second bigger disk. Because then all involved partition and their sizes are known.
Am I right?

Greetings
Lars
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-13 11:21 How to grow RAID1 mirror on top of LVM? Anton Altaparmakov
2008-03-25  5:36 ` Neil Brown
2008-03-25  8:00   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2008-04-28 14:25   ` Lars Täuber
2008-04-28 15:09     ` David Lethe
2008-04-29  7:55       ` Lars Täuber
2008-04-29 13:21         ` David Lethe
2008-05-02  3:14     ` Neil Brown
2008-05-02  7:23       ` Lars Täuber
2008-05-02 15:06       ` Russ Hammer
2008-05-04 11:20         ` Neil Brown
2008-05-05  7:10           ` Lars Täuber [this message]
2008-05-06 12:34           ` Russ Hammer

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