[CentOS] Growing RAID5 on CentOS 4.6
Stephen Harris
lists at spuddy.org
Fri Aug 22 18:36:49 UTC 2008
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:25:20PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> I don't think you can grow it without backing it up, destroying
> it, rebuilding it with 5 devices, then restoring.
You _can_... but it requires a newer kernel. See, for example,
http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Growing#Adding_partitions
Newer kernels have this option:
config MD_RAID5_RESHAPE
bool "Support adding drives to a raid-5 array"
depends on MD_RAID456
default y
---help---
A RAID-5 set can be expanded by adding extra drives. This
requires "restriping" the array which means (almost) every
block must be written to a different place.
This option allows such restriping to be done while the array
is online.
But it seems this isn't available in the CentOS 4.6 kernel.
--
rgds
Stephen
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