From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: lrhorer@satx.rr.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New device for RAID array
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:21:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110513112119.79e67ceb@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF.A6.28813.F428CCD4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com>
On Thu, 12 May 2011 19:59:01 -0500 "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
wrote:
>
> I read through the man page for mdadm a couple of times and did not spot how
> to do this. I currently have a RAID array that I need to upgrade from 1T
> drives to 3T drives. To accomplish this, I intend to create a larger array,
> but with fewer spindles, and then rsync the contents of the old array to the
> new. Once I am done, I then want to stop the old array (/dev/md0) and start
> up the new array under /dev/md0. Do I have to stop the array and then
> re-create it with all the same parameters, except the device target?
For v0.90: --update=super-minor
For v1.x --update=name
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-13 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-13 0:59 New device for RAID array Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-13 1:21 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-05-13 5:37 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-13 5:50 ` NeilBrown
2011-05-13 5:59 ` Leslie Rhorer
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