On Thursday March 13, aia21@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Is there a better way to do this? I am hoping someone will tell me to > use option blah to utility foo that will do this for me without having > to break the mirror twice and resync each time. (-; Sorry, but no. This mode of operation was never envisaged for md. I would always put the md/raid1 devices below the LVM. Every time you buy two drives, combine them into a RAID1, and add the /dev/mdX as a PV for LVM. Then grow you LVM devices whenever you like. > > If not, please consider this a feature request for mdadm. (-: It > should have an option to detect that the underlying device has grown > and thus write a new superblock (or move the old one or whatever) at > the end of the newly grown device instead of complaining that it does > not exist. Or something! As it is, it is incredibly time consuming > and inefficient. )-: I'll keep it in mind (Which it to say: I will save this in my 'mdadm' mailbox, and have a look through that mailbox next time I'm working on improvements to mdadm). NeilBrown -- 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
