HP DL385G1 Smart Array 6i AMD64 FBSD 6.3

[Xin LI]

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Todorov wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I want to migrate my RAID1 (2 disks) (automatically assigned as RAID1
| bacause I have two disks inserted in RAID 1+0 Logical drive), add two
| more disks and get actual RAID 1+0 drive of four disks.
|
| I was reading the ACU specs of HP and I see this can be done online. I
| can have downtime - the question is if I can do it w/o dump and restore
| of the filesystem?
|
| I fully realize that the size will be doubled of /dev/da0 device,
| currently 136GB will become 272GB. Can I make a spare partition of it,
| will the whole procedure happen w/o any dump/restore?

I think you should at least take a backup before resizing anything
regardless if there is any mechanism that allows you to do it without a
full restore.  With regards to the resizing, for UFS there is a program
called 'growfs' but I think there are few users who used it, so
potentially it could use more time if you decided to use it :(

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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