Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 6 authors, 2014-03-13

Re: Replace RAID devices without resorting to degraded mode?

From: NeilBrown <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-12 23:18:33

On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:45:31 +0100 David Brown [off-list ref]
wrote:
So for raid1, you would add a new mirror device, making a 3-way mirror
instead of a 2-way one (I don't know off-hand if md raid allows this
re-shape).
It sure does. raid1 can be 1-way, 2-way, 3-way, 4-way ..... and "mdadm
--grow" can easily switch between them.

NeilBrown

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