OT: how to increase RAID space

akruijff at dds.nl akruijff at dds.nl
Thu Jun 28 03:03:05 UTC 2007



   Quoting Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th>:

>> that's what a volume manager (such as LVM2 in linux, Veritas Vol Mgr , and
>> vinum (I think) in FBSD 4 ) do  - they abstract the hardware storage layer.
>
> That is hardware RAID.

It depends on what you have. If you have a 5/6 RAID setup then you  
might get away with simply adding a disk. This will work from the RAID  
point, I just don't know how FreeBSD will feel about this. Perhaps the  
manufacture has special tools for this.

   --
Alex


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