[NBLUG/talk] RAID?

[Kyle Rankin]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:17:29AM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Not surprisingly, I have never seen a hardware RAID implementation
> that could do something that exotic.  My only complaint was that I
> couldn't increase the size of the RAID-5 array by adding more drives
> without rebuilding the entire array, but that seems to be a pretty
> rare feature for any RAID implementation.
> 
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters
> <anfrind at gmail.com>
> 

Just wanted to comment on this point, actually these days mdadm can grow
RAID-5 arrays by adding a partition (and there was a tool to do it on
old-style linux software RAID as well). I've successfully done it to grow
RAID5s both with the old-style tool and with mdadm as part of testing for
Knoppix Hacks and while it took some time it did work.

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