I had come across EVMS. It seems like overkill for me to go that route when I am just looking for a one-time resize. A few years back I had used "raidreconf" to successfully resize an array. Given its age and the reports I have seen, I can't use that. If we are being forced down the EVMS path, I'll consider it. However, it would be much more convenient to have a utility that works directly with the RAID-5 array. -Pat On 8/29/05, David M. Strang <dstrang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > EMVS supports this -- > > http://evms.sourceforge.net > > However, in my experience -- it's really slow; and it was faster for me to > backup the data to tape; recreate the raid and restore. > > It may be faster now; that was under release v2.5.1 > > David M. Strang > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Patrick Hoover > To: linux-raid > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:05 PM > Subject: RAID-5 Expansion > > > Is the only way to increase the size of a RAID-5 array to push the > data somewhere else and create a new array including the new device? > This is the only solution I have come across so far. > > > -Pat > - > 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
