Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:21:54 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd@celestial.com, Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu>, Freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array Message-ID: <200307131421.54582.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20030712182925.A32668@barryg.mi.celestial.com> References: <1057992137.29715.7.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030713000629.GA55186@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030712182925.A32668@barryg.mi.celestial.com>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:59, 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, b= ut > not to expand the size of existing file systems. > > Are there any file systems that work with FreeBSD that allow expansion > after the fact? growfs(8) However RAID-5 is a different problem :-) Malcolm Kay
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