From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Feb 19 07:45:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04934 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:45:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kcwc.com (h1.kcwc.com [206.139.252.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA04913 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 07:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from curt@kcwc.com) Received: by mail.kcwc.com (NX5.67c/NeXT-2.0-KCWC-1.0) id AA02302; Thu, 19 Feb 98 10:45:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 10:45:41 -0500 From: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) Message-Id: <9802191545.AA02302@mail.kcwc.com> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting oriented with RAID Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On 19-Feb-98 Omar Thameen wrote: > > Thank you for this excellent information. One more question: > > > > After you've created RAID arrays with DPT, is it possible to > > later "grow the array" by adding a drive if you need more space? > > I'm guessing it might be possible if you've set up RAID-5, but not > > with 0 or 1. > > Yes. I do not remember the details. Shrinking an array is a different > story :-) But if you build a Unix File system on that array, there's no way that I know of to grow the file system even if you can grow the underlying array. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message