Re: very degraded RAID5, or increasing capacity by adding discs

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Neil Brown said:     (by the date of Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:32:09 +1000)

> On Tuesday October 9, janek_listy@xxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > Problems at step 4.: 'man mdadm' doesn't tell if it's possible to
> > grow an array to a degraded array (non existant disc). Is it possible?
> 
> Why not experiment with loop devices on files and find out?
> 
> But yes:  you can grow to a degraded array providing you specify a
> --backup-file.

Thanks! I'll test this on loopback devices :)


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Janek Kozicki                                                         |
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