From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Christian <CvB@kruemel.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Extending an existing RAID (10) array
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:31:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130708083128.41a7d0f6@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D90BAF.2060901@kruemel.org>
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On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 08:33:19 +0200 Christian <CvB@kruemel.org> wrote:
> On 04.07.2013 01:24, NeilBrown wrote:
> > I think you are just talking about making the devices bigger without
> > increasing the number of devices.
> > This possible for RAID10 as long as it uses a 'near' or 'offset' layout. It
> > is not support for 'far' layout RAID10.
>
> And as I just found out after some googling, growing RAID10 requires at
> least kernel 3.4rc. I have Ubuntu 12.04, which has kernel 3.2
>
> I'm now thinking I could use a parted magic live cd to grow the array,
> and then continue using it with my current linux distribution. Am I
> right in this assumption? Or have I missed something?
>
> Thanks, Chris
I don't know anything about parted magic live cds, but if you somehow boot
into a nice new kernel that supports resizing RAID10 arrays, and resize the
array and then go back to your old kernel, that should all work.
NeilBrown
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-03 19:04 Extending an existing RAID (10) array cvb
2013-07-03 23:24 ` NeilBrown
2013-07-07 6:33 ` Christian
2013-07-07 22:31 ` NeilBrown [this message]
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