From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 03:03:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCF816A421 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:03:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from otto.isd-holland.nl (otto.isd-holland.nl [62.221.254.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E3313C46E for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:03:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from lamy.dds.nl (lamy.dds.nl [213.196.11.14]) by otto.isd-holland.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6B34FF42; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:31:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www-data by lamy.dds.nl with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I3jmx-0002Ht-00; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:31:19 +0200 Received: from ip51cc8423.speed.planet.nl (ip51cc8423.speed.planet.nl [81.204.132.35]) by webmail.dds.nl (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:31:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20070628043119.zsn5q46cef6okw4k@webmail.dds.nl> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:31:19 +0200 From: akruijff@dds.nl To: Olivier Nicole References: <200706270730.l5R7U9hx007223@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20070627195043.24d373fd@localhost> <200706271007.l5RA7WY5033736@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200706271007.l5RA7WY5033736@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: DDS webmail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Platte-tekstversie van bericht X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@meijome.net Subject: Re: OT: how to increase RAID space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:03:05 -0000 Quoting Olivier Nicole : >> that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , an= d >> vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do=A0 - they abstract the hardware storage la= yer. > > That is hardware RAID. It depends on what you have. If you have a 5/6 RAID setup then you =20 might get away with simply adding a disk. This will work from the RAID =20 point, I just don't know how FreeBSD will feel about this. Perhaps the =20 manufacture has special tools for this. -- Alex