Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Sander]

Michael Tokarev wrote (ao):
> NeilBrown wrote:
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > In line with the principle of "release early", following are 5
> > patches against md in 2.6.latest which implement reshaping of a
> > raid5 array. By this I mean adding 1 or more drives to the array and
> > then re-laying out all of the data.
> 
> Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? I understand
> all those words means alot for marketing persons - zero downtime,
> online resizing etc, but it is much safer and easier to do that stuff
> 'offline', on an inactive array, like raidreconf does - safer, easier,
> faster, and one have more possibilities for more complex changes. It
> isn't like you want to add/remove drives to/from your arrays every
> day... Alot of good hw raid cards are unable to perform such reshaping
> too.

I like the feature. Not only marketing prefers zero downtime you know :-)

Actually, I don't understand why you bother at all. One writes the
feature. Another uses it. How would this feature harm you?

	Kind regards, Sander

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