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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: status of raid 4/5 disk reduce
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:43:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4940FCCA.1060703@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A20315AE59B5C34585629E258D76A97C02FA1D78@34093-C3-EVS3.exchange.rackspace.com>

On 11/12/2008 04:30, David Lethe wrote:
[...]
> If you want to copy 4x120 into 3x500 ... mount all the disks and COPY
> the data.  If you are truly limited to 4 disks, and are too cheap to
> spend $10-20 for another controller, after buying 1.5TB worth of disk
> drives, then you really need to get your priorities in order.

But my 1U server only physically has room for 4 drives. It doesn't 
matter how many extra controllers I buy, I can't attach more drives.

Cheers,

John.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-11 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-08 20:59 status of raid 4/5 disk reduce Michael Brancato
2008-12-09 21:11 ` Alex Lilley
2008-12-09 21:33   ` David Lethe
2008-12-09 21:51     ` Robin Hill
2008-12-09 23:15       ` Ryan Wagoner
2008-12-10 12:14         ` Alex Lilley
2008-12-11  0:07           ` Michael Brancato
2008-12-11  4:30             ` David Lethe
2008-12-11  6:33               ` Michael Brancato
2008-12-11 13:52                 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2008-12-11 15:13                   ` Michael Brancato
2008-12-11 11:43               ` John Robinson [this message]
2008-12-11 14:46                 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2008-12-11 15:24                   ` David Lethe
2008-12-11 16:13                     ` Michael Brancato
2008-12-11 15:27                   ` Michael Brancato
2008-12-11 11:51               ` Alex Lilley
2008-12-15 23:18 ` Neil Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-12 15:38 David Lethe

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