> Another feature of LVM is moving physical devices (PV). This makes it > easier to grow your enormous fs because it allows you to remove disks. Thanks for the tip, didn't think of it this way... [...] > I haven't ever done this, just read about it. Also, maybe when md > allows growing raid5/6 this will be handled by md. > Well, that's what I am counting on since the beginning of my interrest for md... Indead, LVM would be a good alternative to the growth capability of md anyway... Although I would prefer a pure md extension to the raid... Well, anyway, removing drives is (for me) a little out-of-topic, because the system will be entropic : loads of data will come in, none will get out... Removing a drive would only mean the drive is dead. - 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
