Re: Expanding filesystem

"Randal T. Rioux" <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:21:42 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.trustix.general
Organization	Procyon Labs - IT Security R&D
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Ariën Huisken wrote:
>> I use XFS on a RAID5 with 10 180gb scsi drives. mdadm is excellent and
>> expansion is simple.
>>
>> If you use large files (>1gb) XFS is your best friend. Though you better
>> have a UPS, because if you lose power on a write you're gonna get hurt.
> 
> Ok, XFS then, but how about adding/expanding the RAID5 set with an  
> extra disk? Seen my previous post about the error message.
> 

You will need a kernel >=2.6.17 - these include the experimental support
for adding RAID5 drives (if enabled, naturally). I don't know how this
can be done without kernel support.

randy