Re: raid5 growing question

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Shane wrote:

Hello all,

I have a raid5 softraid array using 6x320GB SATA drives.  I
would like to reconfigure it to be 3x1tb SATA.  Is there a
way to do this using the grow feature of mdadm.  IE by
swapping 3 of the 320GB drives out for the 3 1TB drives
allowing the resyncs to occur between swapping and then
somehow tell mdadm to take the remaining three 320GB drives
out of the array or would I need to just create a new array
somehow, copy the data over and just shut the first array
right down?

Thanks,
Shane

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There may be a way but it would be tricky, why not just move the data off 
to another 1-2TB host and then transfer it back via NFS or RSYNC?

Justin.