[CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)
Christopher Chan
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Sep 28 00:31:58 UTC 2009
>>> md (software raid mechanism or watever u wanna call it) allows u to
>>> grow so if your raid is formatted with an fs that allows u to grow,
>>> then u r good to go (lvm will allow u to grow).
>>>
>> This was also my current belief, again thanks for confirming that.
>>
> ----
> you will not be able to add more physical drives to an existing RAID-5
>
You can since 2007 (mainline kernel 2.6.17) and therefore should be
available in Centos 5.
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