From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: changing to fewer larger disks
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:55:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140729125558.5d3b40c9@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1407281545030.7929@uplift.swm.pp.se>
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:51:57 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson
<swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just had a thought, now that we're seeing much larger drives becoming
> available, like 6TB-drives, it would be nice if it was possible to take an
> array consisting of 2TB-drives, replace a few of them with 6TB-drives
> (with want-replace) and then tell MD to restripe the entire array onto
> these fewer larger drives.
>
> Concrete example:
>
> 10 bays, currently RAID6 in 9 disks + 1 spare, all disks 2TB ones.
>
> If I took out the spare and replaced it with a 6TB drive and one by one,
> did want-replace so 5 of the drives were 6TB drives, I now potentially
> have the space to keep the same contents on 5 6TB drives intead of 9 2TB
> drives.
>
> If I told mdadm to reduce the number of data drives to 5, would it then
> intelligently choose the 5 largest ones and keep the data area intact (or
> even grow it a little), or what would it do? If this is not the case,
> could this functionality needed be added to the feature request list,
> whereever that list might live?
>
This has come up before (once I think, maybe twice - many months ago). I
think I have it on a to-do list somewhere.....
http://neil.brown.name/blog/20110216044002#8
Yes, it would be nice. No, it hasn't been implemented.
Now, if only we could find someone keen on turning feature requests into
working code....
NeilBrown
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