On Wednesday August 1, hyperion@gnyrf.net wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Just figured if anyone could give some information about resizing of software
> raid5 systems (2.4.x kernels)? I've been looking all over for information about
> if this is possible or not currently, and if not, how this system of raid
> cluster blocks work in conjunction with ext2. The code is a bit tricky and not
> too many comments to help one try and get a hold of how it works.
> Any pointers for this would be nice.
The only way to resize a raid5 array is to back up, rebuild, and
re-load. Any attempt to re-organise the data, or the linkage, to
avoid this would be more trouble that it is worth.
NeilBrown
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