Re: Resize raid? RAID Reconfig Tool?
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:14:57AM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
> >because you forgot the missing drive
>
> Lets change that theory. Lets say I want to growthe array as I move data
> over. And I need to grow it in several stages. Then I can not use
> missing, since I then I effect have >1 missing drives in a RAID-5.
>
> So, is there tools to actually _add_ drives to an existin Raid5?
raidreconf and EVMS. Unfortunately both solutions leave somethng to be
desired. Solaris's (vaporware) ZFS will do it, too.
It's a real shame, because the underlying technical issues are really
not difficult. Raid resize should be simple, safe, and live. Oh well.
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