On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:19:19PM +0100, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > Hi, > > Let's assume we have a RAID-5 with 7 disks. > Each time an HD fails, we will replace it with a > larger one, since this will be cheaper. > Once we replaced 3 HDs, with could use the unused > space in RAID-5 again. > Unfortunately, with the current features, we will > have to wait to fail all the 7 disks. Nah, when you have 2 new disks, you can put the excessive space into a new raid, which should be able to grow, with further new disks to arrive. But in principle you are right, it would be nice to use dirfferent age/size disks in a clever way. Best regards Keld -- 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
