Unsubscribe On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 12:28 AM Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > On 8/15/20 10:57 AM, lejeczek wrote: > > Hi guys > > In hope that experts roam this list I want to ask if it is > possible to extend raid5. > If I wanted to be specific, raid created this way: > > $ lvcreate -n raid5.1 -l 100%pv --stripes 5 --stripe-size 8 > ST2000_front.0 /dev/sdj /dev/sdk /dev/sdn /dev/sdo /dev/sdp > /dev/sdq > > You can see I try to be specific about hard disks here. I > hope that later I can add more of exact same hard disk to > the system and extend such raid5. > > > As you consumed all capacity on those disks, you either got the option to > extend using lvextend (though you don't need the same disk sizes but you'd > need 6 more disks to be able to extend all the given raid5 stripes using > lvextend) -or- you can lvconvert adding stripes to your given raid5 which > will also grow the RaidLV size by the added stripe capacities. In that > later case of adding stripes, you'd have to deploy N additional disks (N = > number of stripes to add) of the same or larger size than the ones you got. > > Mind, you could also convert to e.g. raid6 in case your resilience > requirements change which'll require another disk to store parity blocks. > > Heinz > > > > many thanks, L. > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing listlinux-lvm@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/