On Apr 6, 2005 2:11 PM, dean collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>You also can't 'add drives as time goes by' to a raid 5. > >> > >> > >unless i use the 'missing' trick? > > > > > nope. > The only way to add drives is an unsupported program called raidreconf > or using the (supported) EVMS solution. > Sean's idea of lots of mini-raid5'ed partitions is very interesting > though. I haven't thought it through. I think you could do it just using > > the lvm 'move blocks' approach (ie without needing to repeatedly > shrink/grow the filesystem - just one growfs at the end). > I'd rate it as lvm/md experts only (which isn't that hard TBH) >
Newbie is getting a fuzzy signal here. Can someone please confirm that using RAID 5 and LVM one cannot grow a filesystem by adding a new disk/partition? -- Milan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
