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From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re-size RAID-10
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:14:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090326081418.GB23977@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18890.44223.469.924083@notabene.brown>

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:14:22AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday March 25, dmiller@amfes.com wrote:
> > I think I asked this once before, if so I apologize for the redundancy - 
> > but then again maybe something's changed...
> > 
> > I've got a RAID-10 array with four drives.  It's nearing capacity, and I 
> > need to explore expansion options.  Can I simply add a pair of new 
> > drives?  Or do I have to archive the information first and rebuild the 
> > array from scratch?
> 
> It is not currently possible to resize a raid-10.

In my mind, it should not be that difficult, tho, to do it.

Is resize an operation that needs to be done with the fs unmounted?

best regards
keld


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-26  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 21:51 Re-size RAID-10 Daniel L. Miller
2009-03-25 22:14 ` Neil Brown
2009-03-26  7:40   ` Raz
2009-03-27  4:44     ` Neil Brown
2009-03-26  8:14   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2009-03-26  8:22     ` Raz

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