Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday May 1, cat@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>Hey folks. >> >>There's no point in using LVM on a raid5 setup if all you intend to do >>in the future is resize the filesystem on it, is there? The new raid5 >>resizing code takes care of providing the extra space and then as long >>as the say ext3 filesystem is created with resize_inode all should be >>sweet. Right? Or have I missed something crucial here? :) > > > You are correct. md/raid5 makes the extra space available all by > itself. Further - even if you don't create the filesystem with the right amount of extra metadata space for online resizing, you can resize any ext2/3 filesystem offline, and it doesn't take very long. You just use resize2fsf instead of ext2online -Mike - 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
