Re: Linear RAID hot grow

["Dat Chu" <dattanchu@gmail.com>]

The links on Neil's website to those patches are no longer there. When
I try to hot grow a linear raid, it says that hot grow for linear raid
is not supported.

Where would I find those patches?

With warm regards,
Dat Chu



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> On 8/20/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Dat Chu wrote:
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> > > I am trying to find the mdadm version that support Linear RAID hot
> > > grow. Does anyone have a link to point me to? I am currently running
> > > 2.6.2.
> > >
> > > With warm regards,
> > > Dat Chu
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> > Not sure, it seems like it would be supported by now?
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> > But according to the docs for 2.6.2:
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> >         Grow   Grow  (or shrink) an array, or otherwise reshape it in some way.
> >                Currently supported growth options including changing the active
> >                size of component devices in RAID level 1/4/5/6 and changing the
> >                number of active devices in RAID1/5/6.
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> > http://neil.brown.name/blog/SoftRaid
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> > --grow option for "linear" md arrays
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> >  I've just been working on an enhancement for Linux "MD" linear arrays
> > which allows them to be enlanged.
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> > More specifically, a new device (typcially disk drive) can be added to the
> > end of an active linear array now. The size increases accordingly.
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> > You can find patches for mdadm and 2.6.7-rc3-mm1.
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> > It is still a work in progress, as it isn't documented, some of the code
> > doesn't report errors very nicely, and I realised that there is some work
> > needed in md.c with respect to handling new superblocks.
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> > I really should do the new-superblock code in mdadm and get it all tidied
> > up.
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