Actually, our layout is RAID 0+1. All we want to is add the extra capacity of 2 disks per mirror by growing the filesystem. There is only one filesystem on the RAID.
Thanks, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Doug Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 5:53 PM To: Jaehne, Richard S Cc: veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Increase filesystem size Jaehne, Richard S wrote: > > Veritas Gurs, > > I've got a Sun storedge 3300 RAID that has a Solaris 8/Veritas 4.0 > RAID 0+1 filesystem on it. Currently we have the RAID populated with 7 > disks (3 striped w/ parity on one side > mirrored to 3 striped disks > w/ parity on the other side with 1 logging/spare disk). We have > purchased 5 more disks to full populate the RAID (2 for each side of > the mirror and 1 more logging/spare disk). We want to add the 2 extra > disks to a single Veritas filesystem. Are there any gotchas I should > be careful of while performing this upgrade? Can I just grow the > filesystem or do I need to detatch the plex and then add the disks? > > TIA > > Richard Jaehne > Sounds to me like you are mirroring raid-5 plexes. Is that right? What is your desired end state? (it is unclear). Sounds to me like you want to do a vxassist relayout and give the volume new dimensions (stripe-mirror?) _______________________________________________ Veritas-vx maillist - Veritas-vx@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-vx
