Re: SCSI -> RAID - data loss? Adding disks to RAID - data balancing?

1999-11-16 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 03:09:38PM -0500, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 questions here... > > 1. > I'm getting some SCSI disks that I may decide/need to put them in a RAID > later on. > I am wondering whether I will be able to preserve all the data on the SCSI > disks when I convert

SCSI -> RAID - data loss? Adding disks to RAID - data balancing?

1999-11-16 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi, I have 2 questions here... 1. I'm getting some SCSI disks that I may decide/need to put them in a RAID later on. I am wondering whether I will be able to preserve all the data on the SCSI disks when I convert them to RAID, or will conversion to RAID mean that I'll have to lose data on those

Re: SCSI -> RAID - data loss? Adding disks to RAID - data balancing?

1999-01-16 Thread Stephen Waters
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > When I get a little more spare time I'll add RAID-5 capability. cool, though i wonder what some of the more kernel knowledgeable folk think about adding that to the kernel layer? would it be possible to have the RAID layer add a disk to a RAID 5 array w/ a few keystrokes