Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932382AbWAWBJF (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:09:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932431AbWAWBJE (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:09:04 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.36]:41224 "EHLO smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932382AbWAWBJD (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:09:03 -0500 Message-ID: <43D42CA8.6060507@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:08:56 +0100 From: John Hendrikx User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: NeilBrown CC: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction References: <20060117174531.27739.patches@notabene> In-Reply-To: <20060117174531.27739.patches@notabene> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 17 NeilBrown wrote: > In line with the principle of "release early", following are 5 patches > against md in 2.6.latest which implement reshaping of a raid5 array. > By this I mean adding 1 or more drives to the array and then re-laying > out all of the data. > I think my question is already answered by this, but... Would this also allow changing the size of each raid device? Let's say I currently have 160 GB x 6, could I change that to 300 GB x 6 or am I only allowed to add more 160 GB devices? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/