> < So unless something has changed since April, only
> Linux (and a number of hardware solutions) support
> growing raid5 arrays with devices.
>
> Indeed SVM has been able to so as well, Solaris 9
> in fact could.
>(SVM == Solaris Volume Manager)
> An example from the Solaris 9 docs..
> H
Basically, I'd chose BOTH for server solutions. If you
had to chose only one server solution, I'd chose
OpenSolaris.
Why? You have the solutions provided by the Solaris
ISVs and IHVs as well as the solutions CentOS provides
(either through a VM environment or otherwise).
A few years ago, I would
On 5/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Back to the main point though: Solaris is (apparently) unable to
>grow RAID-Z arrays. And to be fair, neither can Linux ;)
You can grow a RAID-Z array as long as you just add a new RAID-Z
concatenation; is that not usually what you wan
>Back to the main point though: Solaris is (apparently) unable to
>grow RAID-Z arrays. And to be fair, neither can Linux ;)
You can grow a RAID-Z array as long as you just add a new RAID-Z
concatenation; is that not usually what you want?
Adding a drive to RAID-5 just makes it yet slower.
Ca
> An example from the Solaris 9 docs..
> How to Expand a RAID 5 Volume
Sorry, I was unfairly comparing Solaris RAID-Z with Linux RAID-5 at the start.
You are absolutely right that both Solaris and Linux can both grow software
RAID-5 arrays. (Windows cannot, and I see no indication otherwise)
> I'm not sure what
> your confusion might have been in regard to
> non-standard vocabulary.
I wasn't talking about myself when I said people were confused. Maybe you
should talk to someone on ZFS team if you think Sanjeev is wrong :)
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