From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 19:46:17 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 EDEA937B40A for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8FF43F75 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE344C2 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:46:15 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h6D2kF317486 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:46:15 -0600 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:46:14 -0600 From: Tillman To: Freebsd Message-ID: <20030712204614.A16381@seekingfire.com> 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> <20030712182925.A32668@barryg.mi.celestial.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030712182925.A32668@barryg.mi.celestial.com>; from freebsd@celestial.com on Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:29:25PM -0700 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers 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 02:46:18 -0000 On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:29:25PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > 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? Is there something about grows(8) that I'm missing? It's entirely possible that I've missed the context or something, but I'm grown UFS filesystems (on vinum concat's, actually) several times wih great success. -T -- Behold, O Man, you can create life. You can destroy life. But, lo, you have no choice but to experience life. And therein lies both your greatest strength and your greatest weakness. - Orange Catholic Bible, Book of Kimla Septima, 5:3