On Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 05:27:49PM -0600, Jeff Rippy wrote:
> I too am looking at this. My current setup is 4x 500GB drives and I
> want to move to 3x >=1TB drives.
> My usable space should increase from 1.5TB to >= 2TB with this move if possible.
>
> I'm fairly new to linux-raid in general but I know you can replace
> drives with bigger ones. You just can't use their space until all
> drives in the array are of that size. So I'm thinking of replacing 3
> of the 500's with the 1 TBs. Then fail and remove the 4th drive
> (assuming enough free space) and somehow forcing a reshape on the
> remaining 3 drives. Not sure if that is possible but I can't imagine
> why it wouldn't be. After the resync, finally grow to the new size
> and be done.
>
> Can someone tell me if this is even possible? I saw the one reply in
> Nov. to Alex's email but I don't have another machine to swap the
> disks too.
>
This is currently not possible (though it is on the roadmap for future
work). For now, the only solution is to set up the new disks as a
separate array and copy the data.
Cheers,
Robin
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