<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Long</b> <<a href="mailto:briandlong@gmail.com">briandlong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 11/1/07, Yan Seiner <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Well, part of the motivation is "because I can"... :-)
<br>><br>> But it's also because I'd like to test just how robust 'growing an<br>> array' really is.<br>><br>> You can supposedly grow an array while it's live.<br><br>I found this article which makes we want to try it as well. :-)
<br><br><a href="http://isomerica.net/archives/2007/07/12/growing-a-linux-software-raid-5-completely-online/">http://isomerica.net/archives/2007/07/12/growing-a-linux-software-raid-5-completely-online/</a></blockquote>
<div> </div>
<div>I followed these instructions : <a href="http://scotgate.org/?p=107">http://scotgate.org/?p=107</a> and grew a 3x750GB RAID5 to a 4x750GB RAID5 without any problems (and I did it all while it was live). The process took about 20 hours - and I kept using Myth throughout.
</div><br> </div>