Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-23 Thread Nux!
On 22.02.2014 22:27, James A. Peltier wrote: partprobe can rescan partitions, but it can't resize them. You may be able to use gparted or the parted text mode to resize partitions online. Sadly you can't really do this without reboot. I'd love to be wrong, but I hit the same problem in the

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-23 Thread Billy Crook
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 22.02.2014 22:27, James A. Peltier wrote: partprobe can rescan partitions, but it can't resize them. You may be able to use gparted or the parted text mode to resize partitions online. Sadly you can't really do this without

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-23 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: | On 22.02.2014 22:27, James A. Peltier wrote: | | partprobe can rescan partitions, but it can't resize them. You | may | be able to use gparted or the parted text mode to resize | partitions |

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-22 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:24 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca | wrote: | The choice is yours. I use whole disk PVs myself. | | Indeed I did originally use whole-disk PVs. But Anaconda doesn't | support them so during a recent rebuild we went to partitions.

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-22 Thread Andrew Holway
On 20 February 2014 21:50, Billy Crook bcr...@riskanalytics.com wrote: We add disks to an LSI raid array periodically to increase the amount of available space for business needs. I *would* highly recommend ZFS for this kind of application. The ability to dynamically expand the zpool (zpool is

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread Phoenix, Merka
...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Billy Crook Sent: Thursday, 20 February, 2014 13:50 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online We add disks to an LSI raid array periodically to increase the amount of available space for business needs. It is understood that this process

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/21/2014 4:50 PM, Phoenix, Merka wrote: Both the LV and the filesystem can be resized on the fly without rebooting, but you still have to unmount the filesystem first before resizing either. this is not true for XFS, you can grow XFS online without unmounting it, with live activity.

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread Billy Crook
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Phoenix, Merka merka.phoe...@hp.com wrote: add disks to an LSI raid array periodically to increase the amount of available space for business needs sdc1 is a PV in a VG that holds production data and must not become unavailable at any time How do we grow

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Phoenix, Merka | merka.phoe...@hp.com wrote: snip | I am aware of how lvm, and filesystems work. I don't need help with | those. I'm asking one thing: how to get the kernel to notice that a | partition has grown. Don't use

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread Billy Crook
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:24 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: The choice is yours. I use whole disk PVs myself. Indeed I did originally use whole-disk PVs. But Anaconda doesn't support them so during a recent rebuild we went to partitions. I'm prepared to blame anaconda for that

[CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-20 Thread Billy Crook
We add disks to an LSI raid array periodically to increase the amount of available space for business needs. It is understood that this process starts with metal, and has many layers that must each adjust to make use of the additional space. Each of these layers also says that it can do that