From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 17:07:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6BA37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512FF43FBD for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D317D526C4; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:36:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:36:29 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joachim Dagerot Message-ID: <20030713000629.GA55186@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1057992137.29715.7.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030712070204.GN24420@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1058047624.36622.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SUOF0GtieIMvvwua" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1058047624.36622.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Freebsd Subject: Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:07:01 -0000 --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--