From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Hardcastle Subject: Full use of varying drive sizes? Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <697034.10751.qm@web51302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Jon@eHardcastle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: Jon@eHardcastle.com 'Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.' -----------------------