From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Barre Subject: Re: Fwd: Linux MD raid5 and reiser4... Any experience ? Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:50:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200601051732.k05HWOYT000687@cichlid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200601051732.k05HWOYT000687@cichlid.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > Another feature of LVM is moving physical devices (PV). This makes it > easier to grow your enormous fs because it allows you to remove disks. Thanks for the tip, didn't think of it this way... [...] > I haven't ever done this, just read about it. Also, maybe when md > allows growing raid5/6 this will be handled by md. > Well, that's what I am counting on since the beginning of my interrest for md... Indead, LVM would be a good alternative to the growth capability of md anyway... Although I would prefer a pure md extension to the raid... Well, anyway, removing drives is (for me) a little out-of-topic, because the system will be entropic : loads of data will come in, none will get out... Removing a drive would only mean the drive is dead.