On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:09, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday May 20, ganja@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello, I have just joined this list and made some reading. > > What I am looking for is a way to add new hard drives to my raid5 made > > with mdadm. If have got it right it's not supported, and it's taking > > some time though people wants to do it in the kernel and not the way > > raidtools-reconf does it, fully understandable (even though I would like > > to do it offline). > > You can use raidreconfig (or whatever it is called) from raidtools to > reconfigure an array built with mdadm. The arrays built by mdadm are > just the same as those built by mkraid - it is just a different tool > with a different interface. Ah, ok, thanks for the answer, had no idea reconf worked with it. Is there any way to build the raidtab from my existing configuration, or do I have to build it manually? I guess to build it automatically would be better though a wrongly build raidtab might fuck everything up? > > > > So my question is, is there any timeplan for this functionallity? Can I > > expect to be able to resize my raid5 before winter? > > There is no timeplan for anything. It gets done when it gets done, > depending entirely on who is motivated, how much, how clever they are, > how busy they are, and things like that. > > > NeilBrown > > > > > My idea was to build a lot of raid5 (like 5 of them) to match that my > > hard drives have different sizes, and after that use lvm to get one big > > partition that I can add new drives to and just enlarge. > > > > This leads to that I also have to be able to convert raid1 to raid5, if > > I do not want to move the data on that little part to a temporary disk, > > that would be possible today, it would be only 70G to move around. > > > > -- > > Magnus Månsson <ganja@xxxxxxx> > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Magnus Månsson <ganja@xxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
