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! -- rgds Stephen