From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars =?UTF-8?B?VMOkdWJlcg==?= Subject: Re: How to grow RAID1 mirror on top of LVM? Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:10:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20080505091052.e6389586.taeuber@bbaw.de> References: <25F8EF57-9606-4217-B2D4-2DD3D8E064C4@cam.ac.uk> <18408.36712.100712.499844@notabene.brown> <20080428162556.00ee0d72.taeuber@bbaw.de> <18458.34575.416075.798546@notabene.brown> <1209740806.4319.26.camel@russ-ifl90> <18461.39961.921994.904814@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18461.39961.921994.904814@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: Russ Hammer , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi there! Neil Brown schrieb: > The only possible problem area in your recipe is if the drives are no= t > 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 proble= m. 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 s= izes are known. Am I right? Greetings Lars --=20 Informationstechnologie Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften J=C3=A4gerstrasse 22-23 10117 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 20370-352 http://www.bbaw.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html