From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: RAID-6 horizontal grow
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:40:47 +0200
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Hi,

> I love it when people find out answers by themselves - it shows the
> documentation isn't completely worthless :-)

well, I think the mdadm man page is good and
complete, even if it requires several re-reads
in order to get all the information... :-)
It is definitely worth!

BTW, maybe it would be good to update the wiki
page about this topic.

> I think so, but mdadm cannot do it for you (yet).
> 
> If you
>   for i in /sys/block/mdX/md/dev-*/size
>   do echo 0 > $i
>   done
> 
> it will have much the same effect as --assemble --update devicesize

Thank you so much!
This is exactly what I needed!
 
Thanks again,

bye,

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piergiorgio