gconcat

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Lapo Nustrini wrote:
+> 
+> Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to expand a gconcat volume (by adding a drive to the end of it) without having to wipe the data from the existing set and recreate 
+> from scratch?
+> I don't mind having to manually edit bsdlabels and such.  Just wondering if its possible at all.
+> I've been looking for some docs on this but can't seem to find a definitive answer.

It should just work be relabeling providers.
If you did something like:

	# gconcat label foo da0 da1

You can expand it with:

	# gconcat label foo da0 da1 da2 da3

etc. Just be sure the order of old providers is the same.

PS. You'd need to stop device 'foo' first.

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