Stephen Harris wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:50:29PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
It would probably be faster to backup, rebuild and restore too...
The whole reason I need to extend like this is because I don't have any easy way of backing up 1.3Tbytes of data.
While the rebuild is happening the existing volume is still available.
Besides saying it is available in the latest kernels is like saying it's available in another OS... That's nice, but does nobody here any good.
Well... there's the potential for me to build a kernel with the latest vanilla sources, temporarily boot into that, extend the array and then boot back to a supported kernel afterwards... Maybe!
Or you could just boot from a LiveCD of a distro that was this and run a conversion there, it would make it unavailable during the conversion though.
If the array was part of a LVM VG, you could create another 4 drive array and add it to the VG and extend the LVs that way, or do a pvmove and move everything from the old array to the new.
-Ross
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