Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:29:14 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: freeBSD <freebsd@dagerot.nu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes Message-ID: <200306091929.15181.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> In-Reply-To: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> References: <1055171436.1892.3.camel@big.dagerot.com>
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On Monday 09 June 2003 5:10 pm, freeBSD wrote: > I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming > a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around > without any purpose. > > Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all? I do realise > that I will loose 50Gb, but that's better than not using it at all. > from http://www.daemonnews.org/200002/vinum.html "Like striped plexes, RAID-5 plexes must have equal-sized subdisks and cannot currently be extended" from http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/Future-directions.html "Extending striped and RAID-5 plexes is a slow complicated operation, but it is feasible." I am prepared, and desperately hope to be corrected on this but as far as I am aware it is only possible by backing up, recreating a new vinum configuration and restoring. As for losing 50gb I'll swap you a 120gb for the 170gb ;-)
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