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From: Carlos Williams <carloswill@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How To Grow Using 'mdadm' Utility
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:05:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d80f793f1001280805w3f7dee29n8afdb287494d7673@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264694363.1928.30.camel@test.apertos.eu>

2010/1/28 Michał Sawicz <michal@sawicz.net>:
> You would still need resize2fs to run on a running, mounted FS - it's
> slow and smells of trouble.

Thanks all. Last question. If I have my system as 3 disks in RAID5
array and the 4th disk as a hot spare. Do I still need to format the
4th disk with a filesystem (ext4)? Or will that occur when the
software discovers a disaster in the RAID volume and then starts to
sync the 'hot spare' into the degraded array to take the place of the
failed drive?

The 4th disk does have a 'fd' (RAID) partition table created but no
file system. Just trying to understand how that would work...
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-27 18:56 How To Grow Using 'mdadm' Utility Carlos Williams
2010-01-27 23:29 ` Michał Sawicz
2010-01-28 14:58   ` Carlos Williams
2010-01-28 15:08     ` Michał Sawicz
2010-01-28 15:13       ` Carlos Williams
2010-01-28 15:23         ` Michał Sawicz
2010-01-28 15:50           ` Carlos Williams
2010-01-28 15:59             ` Michał Sawicz
2010-01-28 16:05               ` Carlos Williams [this message]
2010-01-28 16:18                 ` Robin Hill

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