Hi, >> Which controller do you use exactly? We planned to add support for >> growing/shrinking logical volumes to Einarc, but it's not quite ready >> for prime time yet. It might be supported soon, though. > > I have a mix of ServeRAID 6m & 7k controllers, both of which are > rebranded Adaptec. Can you post results of lspci -vv for these controllers, please? >> What exactly do you want to replace? I guess you want to do some >> procedure to gradually change all discs in the array and then grow a >> logical disc? Like that: >> >> 1. Remove one small disc => array is degraded >> 2. Add one bigger disc, rebuild array >> 3. Repeat steps 1-2 for all discs >> 4. Grow physical extents >> 5. Grow logical volume > > Pretty much. These are typical IBM x236 servers that have all six > hotswap SCSI slots full of 36GB disks we're wanting to replace with > 146GB disks we've been given by a sister company. The disks are fine > having been tested by both myself and my counterpart. So, I guess you'd generally want to follow an outline I've posted above. Steps 1-3 are pretty much automated. You just need to do steps 4 and 5. I might be able to answer if particular Adaptec supports this as soon as we'll understand what controller do you exactly have (Adaptec XXXX - ?). -- WBR, Mikhail Yakshin -- 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
