From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 01:24:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22541 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 01:24:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22462 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 01:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA11798; Tue, 5 May 1998 17:53:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980505175312.Z4777@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:53:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: Karl Pielorz , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Patrik_=C5str=F6m?= , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@whistle.com Subject: Re: Adding space to a CCD ! References: <19980505163525.P4777@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 01:14:13AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998 at 1:14:13 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Mon, 4 May 1998 at 12:47:09 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: >>> Patrik Åström wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi ! >>>> >>>> Is it possible to add a drive or a partion to a CCD without needing to >>>> "rebuild" everything from scratch ?. >>>> >>>> I have a 4 GB CCD that's almost full and I would now like to add a >>>> another 2 GB drive, but it would be great >>>> if I could just add the drive and not need to re-partion it... >>>> >>>> Most grateful for any hints or suggestions... >>> >>> I used CCD's extensively on my system... The bad news is that they can't be >>> 'built on the fly', you will need to backup the data on your existing CCD - >>> add the new drive, reformat - and restore the data... >>> >>> Greg Lehey is working on a replacement driver for CCD which may let you do >>> this in the future, no doubt if he sees this message he'll reply as >>> well ;-) >> >> Correct. See http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details of >> vinum. It will allow expansion of concatenated plexes, but I >> currently don't have any plans for direct reorganization of striped >> and RAID5 plexes. The feature is somewhat limited, since ufs >> currently doesn't allow expansion. > > One slight correction there greg.. > terry pointed us at a program that expands UFS by adding cylinder groups. > Maybe it (the mail) is in the archives somewhere. > if not I've cc'd him. Yes, I hadn't forgotten this. But it's not currently in FreeBSD-RELEASE, and since this is -questions, I didn't want to get involved in discussions of what could be coming. On the other hand, then I shouldn't have been talking about vinum, so I suppose you're right :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message