On 8/15/20 10:57 AM, lejeczek wrote:
Hi guys In hope that experts roam this list I want to ask if it is possible to extend raid5. If I wanted to be specific, raid created this way: $ lvcreate -n raid5.1 -l 100%pv --stripes 5 --stripe-size 8 ST2000_front.0 /dev/sdj /dev/sdk /dev/sdn /dev/sdo /dev/sdp /dev/sdq You can see I try to be specific about hard disks here. I hope that later I can add more of exact same hard disk to the system and extend such raid5.
As you consumed all capacity on those disks, you either got the
option to extend using lvextend (though you don't need the same
disk sizes but you'd need 6 more disks to be able to extend all
the given raid5 stripes using lvextend) -or- you can lvconvert
adding stripes to your given raid5 which will also grow the RaidLV
size by the added stripe capacities. In that later case of
adding stripes, you'd have to deploy N additional disks (N =
number of stripes to add) of the same or larger size than the ones
you got.
Mind, you could also convert to e.g. raid6 in case your
resilience requirements change which'll require another disk to
store parity blocks.
Heinz
many thanks, L.
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