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From: "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
Subject: RE: Growing a RAID array
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:43:36 -0500
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> 10Meg devices with a 1Meg chunk size means just 10 stripes.
> 
> To grow from 4 to 5 data disks it calculates that it needs to back up the
> first 20 stripes (I think).  It sees this is more than half the device and
> gets confused and assumes something is wrong.
> 
> Try with 4k chunks, or 100Meg devices.

	Silly machine.  :-)

	'Works like a champ, thanks.  No errors, and the process completes
in the blink of an eye.  Now if growing an array with 3T spindles were only
that fast...