From: Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@yahoo.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Full use of varying drive sizes?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:24:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <697034.10751.qm@web51302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)
Hey guys,
I have an array made of many drive sizes ranging from 500GB to 1TB and I appreciate that the array can only be a multiple of the smallest - I use the differing sizes as i just buy the best value drive at the time and hope that as i phase out the old drives I can '--grow' the array. That is all fine and dandy.
But could someone tell me, did I dream that there might one day be support to allow you to actually use that unused space in the array? Because that would be awesome! (if a little hairy re: spare drives - have to be the size of the largest drive in the array atleast..?) I have 3x500GB 2x750GB 1x1TB so I have 1TB of completely unused space!
Cheers.
Jon H
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next reply other threads:[~2009-09-22 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 11:24 Jon Hardcastle [this message]
2009-09-22 11:52 ` Full use of varying drive sizes? Kristleifur Daðason
2009-09-22 12:58 ` John Robinson
2009-09-22 13:07 ` Majed B.
2009-09-22 15:38 ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-09-22 15:47 ` Majed B.
2009-09-22 15:48 ` Ryan Wagoner
2009-09-22 16:04 ` Robin Hill
2009-09-23 8:20 ` John Robinson
2009-09-23 10:15 ` Tapani Tarvainen
2009-09-23 12:42 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-09-22 13:05 ` Tapani Tarvainen
2009-09-23 10:07 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-09-23 14:57 ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-09-23 20:28 ` Full use of varying drive sizes?---maybe a new raid mode is the answer? Konstantinos Skarlatos
2009-09-23 21:29 ` Chris Green
2009-09-24 17:23 ` John Robinson
2009-09-25 6:09 ` Neil Brown
2009-09-27 12:26 ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2009-09-28 10:53 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-09-28 14:10 ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2009-10-05 9:06 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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