This is the first I've heard of raidreconf. Where is it, and can it be used to reduce a RAID-5 configuration??? Steve Brueggeman On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:33:09 +0000 (GMT), you wrote: >I am happy to report successfully using raidreconf to grow a 7 x 73GB >RAID5 to 10 x 73GB RAID5. > >The operation took around 16 hours. Machine is a 4-way xeon with 6GB RAM; >though the kernel on the CD I booted from only supported UP/1GB RAM. I'm >not sure whether the extra CPUs/memory would have helped performance. >Disks are 10kRPM scsi disks. > >The sequence of commands was: > >boot from cd (raid is root filesystem) >reiserfsck /dev/md0 >raidstop /dev/md0 >raidreconf -o oldraidtab -n newraidtab -m /dev/md0 >go home and sleep! >reiserfsck /dev/md0 >resize_reiserfs /dev/md0 >reiserfsck /dev/md0 >then reboot, and machine carried on as before! > >No errors were reported at any stage. > >All very impressive. Thanks for the good work! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
