On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:14:57AM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
> >because you forgot the missing drive
>
> Lets change that theory. Lets say I want to growthe array as I move data
> over. And I need to grow it in several stages. Then I can not use
> missing, since I then I effect have >1 missing d
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jan Johansson wrote:
> I think I'll be using XFS on that disk, which I understand _Can_ be
> resized dynamically?
Don't resize the underlying device of a mounted XFS partition. You have
been warned. Note that I don't mean enlarging an active XFS partition to
use more space t
>because you forgot the missing drive
Lets change that theory. Lets say I want to growthe array as I move data
over. And I need to grow it in several stages. Then I can not use
missing, since I then I effect have >1 missing drives in a RAID-5.
So, is there tools to actually _add_ drives to an exi
Jan Johansson a écrit :
Raid5 on n-1 disks is more like raid0
Are you sure there? It seem to have come up as one 200GB device?
because you forgot the missing drive
cookiemonster:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5]
md0 : active raid5 hdd1[1] hdc1[0]
195358336 blocks level
>Raid5 on n-1 disks is more like raid0
Are you sure there? It seem to have come up as one 200GB device?
cookiemonster:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5]
md0 : active raid5 hdd1[1] hdc1[0]
195358336 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [2/2] [UU]
unused devices:
cookiemonste
Jan Johansson a écrit :
We use mdadm to administer our software raid. For (certain) hardware
raid there other tools available. Just "apt-cache search raid"...
Wait... does mdadm have that built in?
Let's rephrase that.
Lets say I just did
cookiemonster:/mnt/hde1# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -
>>We use mdadm to administer our software raid. For (certain) hardware
>>raid there other tools available. Just "apt-cache search raid"...
>
>Wait... does mdadm have that built in?
Let's rephrase that.
Lets say I just did
cookiemonster:/mnt/hde1# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5
--raid-device
>We use mdadm to administer our software raid. For (certain) hardware
>raid there other tools available. Just "apt-cache search raid"...
Wait... does mdadm have that built in?
I am using a Dell raid controller on a PE1850 that has a create interface
for changing things AND it will tell you if what you are about to do is
going to destory data.
Oh yes, running Debian 2.4.x
At 07:03 PM 2/27/2006 +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
>Is "RAID Reconfiguration Tool" ( http://unthoug
Jan Johansson wrote:
Is "RAID Reconfiguration Tool" ( http://unthought.net/raidreconf/ )
still the only way to reconfigure an array? I just thought since the
page is from 2001 maybe there is a new way? I would like to add another
200GB disk and go from RAID-1 -> RAID-5
We use mdadm to adminis
Is "RAID Reconfiguration Tool" ( http://unthought.net/raidreconf/ )
still the only way to reconfigure an array? I just thought since the
page is from 2001 maybe there is a new way? I would like to add another
200GB disk and go from RAID-1 -> RAID-5
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