On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Adam Goryachev > <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 25/01/13 12:22, Asif Iqbal wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Brad Campbell <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 25/01/13 09:02, Asif Iqbal wrote: >>>>> I was hoping to grow the size of the raid10. I was following this link >>>>> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing#Expanding_existing_partitions >>>> >>>> Re-read the second sentence on the first line of that page. >>> doh! so I can only grow raid level 1/4/5/6 >>> >>> ok, can you suggest how can I increase the /dir (/dev/md10) with bigger disks? >>> >>> I already backed up the data. >>> >>> does linux software raid allow disks of different sizes in raid10? I >>> did not see much discussion >>> of raid level 10 in that wiki page. >> >> From my understanding, there are two methods: >> 1) Create new RAID10, dd old RAID10 to new one, expand >> filesystem/lvm/whatever is on the RAID10 > > I like this method. However, can I have raid10 with disks of multiple sizes? > ( for my case 2 76G and 4 300G ) > This answered my question http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg17303.html > >> 2) Don't use RAID10, use RAID1 + linear. Don't increase the size of >> members, only add additional pairs at the end of the linear array. >> 3) The one exception to 2 is that you can expand the size of the last >> pair, but this is somewhat tricky. I've done this successfully twice, >> but I doubt you really want to be using linear anyway. >> >> Regards, >> Adam >> >> -- >> Adam Goryachev >> Website Managers >> www.websitemanagers.com.au >> > > > > -- > Asif Iqbal > PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- 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
