From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Mike Hardy <mhardy@h3c.com>, berk walker <berk@panix.com>,
Frank Wittig <fw@weisshuhn.de>,
John Poirier <john.poirier@case.edu>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md Grow for Raid 5
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:10:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42303933.8040908@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16942.15235.437442.433397@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown wrote:
>Growing a raid5 or raid6 by adding another drive is conceptually
>possible to do while the array is online, but I have not definite
>plans to do this (I would like to). Growing a raid5 into a raid6
>would also be useful.
>These require moving lots of data around, and need to be able to cope
>with drive failure and system crash.... a fun project..
>
>
EVMS has this already.
It works and is supported (whereas I didn't think raidreconf was).
It would be nice to move the EVMS raid5 extension code into the core md.
FYI, I used EVMS briefly and found it to be an excellent toolset. It's a
teeny bit rough and a bit OTT for a personal server though so I'm
sticking with md/lvm2 for now :)
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-10 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 18:23 md Grow for Raid 5 John Poirier
2005-03-08 19:34 ` Frank Wittig
2005-03-08 21:43 ` Mike Hardy
2005-03-08 23:14 ` berk walker
2005-03-08 23:20 ` Mike Hardy
2005-03-08 23:55 ` Neil Brown
2005-03-10 12:10 ` David Greaves [this message]
2005-03-09 9:31 ` Frank Wittig
2005-03-08 22:57 ` berk walker
2005-03-08 23:15 ` Mike Tran
2005-03-08 23:35 ` berk walker
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