On Thursday May 27, David.Novak@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I just slapped a couple drives together into a linear raid array, but I > might want to add more in the future. Is there a way to add addition disks > to a linear raid array? I was thinking that just updating /etc/raidtab > would do the job, but was wondering if anybody's done it or if there's a > good howto I could be pointed to. Thanks! Currently the only way to do this is to re-create the array with extra drives. This should work without trouble. It is entirely possible that in a future 2.6 kernel, you will be able to use: mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd or something like that to grow a linear array. But not yet. NeilBrown - 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
