Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:36:29 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu> Cc: Freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array Message-ID: <20030713000629.GA55186@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1058047624.36622.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> References: <1057992137.29715.7.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030712070204.GN24420@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1058047624.36622.3.camel@big.dagerot.com>
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--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> Is it possible to just 'plug-in' another disk to a vinum RAID-5 >>> array and let vinum start building a new index based on the new >>> volume-size? >> >> No, sorry. You can (forcibly) add another plex (I think), but it will >> involve complete data loss (another way to say backup/restore data). > > Hmm, this completely ruined just about all of my storage plans. :-) It's documented. > Do anyone know other (read hardware) RAID-systems that are known to > work well with freeBSD and also allows me to increase the total > diskspace without dataloss? I don't. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/EKKFIubykFB6QiMRAt9MAKCBl1QpL3IuXXFWPILJN37CUptdagCghUWe MVgBIDvTqlGgO3rohWaK8y8= =86pO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--
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