Date: 13 Jul 2003 00:07:04 +0200 From: Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: Freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array Message-ID: <1058047624.36622.3.camel@big.dagerot.com> In-Reply-To: <20030712070204.GN24420@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1057992137.29715.7.camel@big.dagerot.com> <20030712070204.GN24420@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Hmm, this completely ruined just about all of my storage plans. :-) Do anyone know other (read hardware) RAID-systems that are known to work well with freeBSD and also allows me to increase the total diskspace without dataloss? On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Is it possible to just 'plug-in' another disk to a vinum RAID-5 > > array and let vinum start building a new index based on the new > > volume-size? > > No, sorry. You can (forcibly) add another plex (I think), but it will > involve complete data loss (another way to say backup/restore data).
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