Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:22:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alexey Koptsevich <ak@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum detach Message-ID: <20010127162236.N12091@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101270821300.86096-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>; from ak@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:35:46AM %2B0300 References: <20010127155028.M12091@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101270821300.86096-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
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On Saturday, 27 January 2001 at 8:35:46 +0300, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Greg, > >> Presumably you're using the volume for a file system. The newfs >> program write the file system structure to the entire volume (or disk >> partition), so even if the file system had no data at all in it, you >> would damage it irreparably by removing a subdisk. > > But how is it possible to add new subdisks if file system structure is > created for the entire volume? There's a new program, growfs, which adjusts the size of the file system. It's available in -CURRENT only. >> Why do you want to do this? > > I do not have resources to create several plexes but would like to > be able to replace one of subdisks by other (of other size) if it > fails by some reason. It is a pity I was mistaken. You can use RAID-5 for this. But you don't need detach to do it; it will happen automatically if one drive fails. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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