Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2007-05-08

Re: Swapping out for larger disks

From: Brad Campbell <hidden>
Date: 2007-05-08 12:43:02

David Greaves wrote:
quoted
I was more wondering about the feasibility of using dd to copy the drive
contents to the larger drives (then I could do 5 at a time) and working
it from there.
Err, if you can dd the drives, why can't you create a new array and use xfsdump
or equivalent? Is downtime due to copying that bad?
I can only do 5 at a time. (10 slots, 5 source - 5 destination).

I'm not worried about the downtime so much as the constant swapping of disks. This way I can do it 
in 2 or 3 blocks at most.


Brad
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