Re: Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > I wouldn't make up raid devices with other raid device (I think its > possible), but I seem to remember thats its not advisable. You're correct. Don't stack md devices if you want to be on the safe side. Nobody tests that regularly, and it has caused probl

Re: Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:06:59PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Got an answer: RTFM! :-) > >-z, --size= > [...] > This value can be set with --grow for RAID level 1/4/5/6. If the > array was created with a size smaller than the currently active >

Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hello debian! I have a RAID-5 mdadm array with 4x500GB drives (1.4TB usable). I'm running out of space and am going to buy a new drive, but I would like to move to 1TB drives (either RAID-5 or RAID-10, haven't quite decided yet). I can't afford to buy all new 1TB drives at once so I'm thinking a

Re: Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

2009-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Got an answer: RTFM! :-) -z, --size= [...] This value can be set with --grow for RAID level 1/4/5/6. If the array was created with a size smaller than the currently active drives, the extra space can be accessed using --grow. The size