Sorry to revive an old thread.. I am working with raid3 vs raid5 at
home to understand the difference better. And this might help the OP.
RAID3 has a dedicated parity drive, and the number of consumers must be (2^n)+1
(2^1)+1 = 3
(2^2)+1 = 5
(2^3)+1 = 9
RAID5 is a distributed parity,
Can someone please advise why growfs would return:
growfs: we are not growing (8388607-4194303) ?
I have a FreeBSD 7.2 server in a VM.
I initially had 5 x 4G disks
Created a raid
graid3 label datavol da2 da3 da4 da5 da6
I upgraded them to 5 x 8g disks
swopped out the virtual disks one at a
