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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Reshape/Grow to fewer but bigger devices
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:28:58 +1000
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:33:46 +0200 Christian Nilsson <nikize@gmail.com> wro=
te:

> Hi,
>=20
> I have tried to find an answer, but my "search fu powers" are now
> coming to a end.
> What i want to do was more or less detailed by Neil in
> http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-raid&m=3D129785210102555
> the section titled "When reshaping an array to fewer devices, allow
> 'size' to be increased"
>=20
> but just to explain:
> I have a 9 devices in a RAID5
> 6 of these are now 2TB disks (I really love hot replace!)
> while the other 3 are still 1TB disks
>=20
> I would now like to grow the array to 6x2TB instead of the present 9x1TB.
>=20
> Is this possible and I just can't find how, or have there just been to
> many other great features instead?
> (I have started a ext4 offline shrink.. but it is a real pain.)
>=20

Sorry, but this function hasn't been implemented yet.

NeilBrown

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