From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Tran <mhtran@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: md Grow for Raid 5
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:15:08 -0600
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How does mdadm grow a raid5 array?
Could you please provide an URL to other tools which can perform online 
capacity expansion of md raid5 arrays?

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Mike T.

berk walker wrote:

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> Already are, John.  mdadm, and two or three others.
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> John Poirier wrote:
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>> Greets,
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>> A lot of RAID 5 hardware controllers can grow a RAID 5 array (online 
>> capacity expansion). Will this be available in software RAID?
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>> John
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