On 4/18/06, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > No, you cannot grow an md/raid0 array. If you need growth, then you > would need to consider LVM at this stage, though md/linear will > probably be able to grow soon. Any chance RAID-5 will be able to grow at some point also? > I've always felt that raid over USB was a "courageous" design. USB > has such a "temporary" feel to it. However, if it work for you, > great. Well, after playing with LVM for a while, I realized that there were a few limitations I hadn't counted on... :-) Since everything seemed to be working ok with the switch of cables and ports, I decided to take the plunge, and am now (knocking on a large virtual pile of wood) almost 60% through a build of the RAID-5 array using the same drives I was having issues with earlier. Given that I had the setup running for several months before Windows decided to get "funny" with my embedded Linux solution, I have hope that this will run for a good while. Of course that means my other pair of drives will now have to be a seperate volume, but that should give me a good setup for some of my more essential files (photos and home movies). USB at least has the advantage over 1394 external drives of not tending to decide to change dev names at each reboot. When I had a firewire array I was always afraid to do a shutdown not knowing what would happen when it came back up. I agree that getting a large box with enough bays to put the disks internal would probably be preferable - but if I had any extra money at this point I'd be more likely to get a good UPS to replace my current power strip with surge protector. Thanks again for the help and advice, Ewan - 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
