From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 09:50:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B3216A469 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:50:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBDD13C457 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:50:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 27965 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2007 04:50:47 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (210.84.50.231) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 27 Jun 2007 04:50:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:50:43 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Olivier Nicole Message-ID: <20070627195043.24d373fd@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200706270730.l5R7U9hx007223@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <200706270730.l5R7U9hx007223@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: how to increase RAID space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:50:48 -0000 On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:30:09 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole wrote: > Is there a way to change to bigger disks, except copying all the RAID > to a temporary disk, and replacing my RAID? ... and the obvious one of adding new drives and mounting them as part of your tree...? that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do - they abstract the hardware storage layer. I believe work is being done to further abstract geom so that an vol manager is doable in latest versions of FreeBSD... It may be possible to do it now with geom, but I really dont know how. B _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough" Richard Feynman I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.