>>>>> "John" == John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: John> Even sadder, when a raid 0/4/5/6 is reshaped over more discs (and John> probably other scenarios outwith md), I'm not sure I agree with the whole "sad" sentiment. Just because ext[234] doesn't query devices automatically doesn't mean the technology doesn't exist. I wrote the MD/LVM extraction code for XFS in 2001. John> both stripe-width and stride-size change. Is there any prospect John> this new stacking could give us the opportunity to tell our client John> (LVM, filesystem, whatever) about the change, or that they'll be John> able to take advantage of it? When you resize the fs it would have to compare the new topology to the old one and adjust accordingly. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html