Re: status of raid 4/5 disk reduce
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <hidden>
Date: 2008-12-11 14:46:33
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, John Robinson wrote:
But my 1U server only physically has room for 4 drives. It doesn't matter how many extra controllers I buy, I can't attach more drives.
You can use a temporary external eSATA enclosure, pvmove the data if you're using LVM, then take downtime when you exchange your new drives into the internal drive bays (or you could even move them one by one by hotremoving one drive from the eSATA enclosure into the internal drive bays. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se