Hi, On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Rik Herrin wrote: > 1) OCE: Online Capacity Expansion: From the latest > version of mdadm (v2.2), it ssems that there is > support for it with the -G option. How well tested is Well, we use LVM above raid, thins is not a big issue. > 3) Performance issues: I'm currently thinking of I have some simple test with bonnie++, the sw raid superior to hw raid, except big-name storage systems. http://zeus.gau.hu/~lajbi/diskbenchmarks.txt > 4) Would anyone recommend a certain hotswap > enclosure? We used ibm xseries and sun machines. The hotswap working well, but the number of drives very limited. Take a look at http://www.coraid.com : very well scalable, cheap storage. Bye, -=Lajbi=---------------------------------------------------------------- LAJBER Zoltan Szent Istvan Egyetem, Informatika Hivatal Most of the time, if you think you are in trouble, crank that throttle! - 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