Michael Tokarev wrote (ao): > NeilBrown wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > In line with the principle of "release early", following are 5 > > patches against md in 2.6.latest which implement reshaping of a > > raid5 array. By this I mean adding 1 or more drives to the array and > > then re-laying out all of the data. > > Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? I understand > all those words means alot for marketing persons - zero downtime, > online resizing etc, but it is much safer and easier to do that stuff > 'offline', on an inactive array, like raidreconf does - safer, easier, > faster, and one have more possibilities for more complex changes. It > isn't like you want to add/remove drives to/from your arrays every > day... Alot of good hw raid cards are unable to perform such reshaping > too. I like the feature. Not only marketing prefers zero downtime you know :-) Actually, I don't understand why you bother at all. One writes the feature. Another uses it. How would this feature harm you? Kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net - 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
