Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:53:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Patrik_=C5str=F6m?= <patrik.astrom@tv3.se>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@whistle.com Subject: Re: Adding space to a CCD ! Message-ID: <19980505175312.Z4777@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980505011214.18134D-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 01:14:13AM -0700 References: <19980505163525.P4777@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.980505011214.18134D-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998 at 1:14:13 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Mon, 4 May 1998 at 12:47:09 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: >>> Patrik Åström wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi ! >>>> >>>> Is it possible to add a drive or a partion to a CCD without needing to >>>> "rebuild" everything from scratch ?. >>>> >>>> I have a 4 GB CCD that's almost full and I would now like to add a >>>> another 2 GB drive, but it would be great >>>> if I could just add the drive and not need to re-partion it... >>>> >>>> Most grateful for any hints or suggestions... >>> >>> I used CCD's extensively on my system... The bad news is that they can't be >>> 'built on the fly', you will need to backup the data on your existing CCD - >>> add the new drive, reformat - and restore the data... >>> >>> Greg Lehey is working on a replacement driver for CCD which may let you do >>> this in the future, no doubt if he sees this message he'll reply as >>> well ;-) >> >> Correct. See http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details of >> vinum. It will allow expansion of concatenated plexes, but I >> currently don't have any plans for direct reorganization of striped >> and RAID5 plexes. The feature is somewhat limited, since ufs >> currently doesn't allow expansion. > > One slight correction there greg.. > terry pointed us at a program that expands UFS by adding cylinder groups. > Maybe it (the mail) is in the archives somewhere. > if not I've cc'd him. Yes, I hadn't forgotten this. But it's not currently in FreeBSD-RELEASE, and since this is -questions, I didn't want to get involved in discussions of what could be coming. On the other hand, then I shouldn't have been talking about vinum, so I suppose you're right :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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