Ewan Grantham wrote: > 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? Truly courageous :) Kidding!! raid5 can grow already - both size of disks (ie replacing each existing disk with a bigger one) and more recently, number of disks. There's not been much traffic about it - but what there has been has been good. You'll need a very recent kernel/mdadm though... and a backup is always recommended. David PS I'm not talking about raidreconf - that has generated some 'doh!' messages -- - 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
