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Subject: Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array
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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