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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shrinking an array
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:58:47 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170411115847.49560234@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170411003008.GA18538@animx.eu.org>

On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:30:08 -0400
Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> wrote:

> I have less than 1tb actually in use.

I'd say just create a new array from scratch on new drives and copy data over.
Going to great lengths with all the layering to ensure proper and safe
shrinking on each is just wasted effort to babysit what is basically an empty
array.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-11  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-11  0:30 Shrinking an array Wakko Warner
2017-04-11  1:05 ` Adam Goryachev
2017-04-11  2:00   ` Wakko Warner
2017-04-11  4:33 ` NeilBrown
2017-04-11  6:58 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]

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