Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:29:25 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu>, Freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array Message-ID: <20030712182925.A32668@barryg.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20030713000629.GA55186@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:36:29AM %2B0930 References: <1057992137.29715.7.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030712070204.GN24420@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1058047624.36622.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030713000629.GA55186@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:36:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: .... >> 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. The problem isn't the RAID system, but the UFS file system which doesn't allow expansion. Vinum's ``concat'' mode allows one to add capacity, but not to expand the size of existing file systems. Are there any file systems that work with FreeBSD that allow expansion after the fact? Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity'' -- Dennis Ritchie
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