From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:17:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43CCA80B.4020603@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060117174531.27739.patches@notabene>
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.
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-17 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-17 6:56 [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 001 of 5] md: Split disks array out of raid5 conf structure so it is easier to grow NeilBrown
2006-01-17 14:37 ` John Stoffel
2006-01-19 0:26 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-21 3:37 ` John Stoffel
2006-01-22 22:57 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 002 of 5] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 003 of 5] md: Infrastructure to allow normal IO to continue while array is expanding NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 004 of 5] md: Core of raid5 resize process NeilBrown
2006-01-17 6:56 ` [PATCH 005 of 5] md: Final stages of raid5 expand code NeilBrown
2006-01-17 9:55 ` Sander
2006-01-19 0:32 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 8:17 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2006-01-17 9:50 ` [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Sander
2006-01-17 11:26 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-01-17 14:03 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-19 0:28 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 16:08 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-17 18:12 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-01-18 8:14 ` Sander
2006-01-18 9:03 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-19 0:22 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 9:01 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-01-17 22:38 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-17 22:57 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 14:10 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-01-22 4:42 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-01-22 22:52 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-23 23:02 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-01-23 1:08 ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-23 1:25 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-23 1:54 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-17 21:38 Lincoln Dale (ltd)
2006-01-18 13:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-18 23:19 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 15:33 ` Mark Hahn
2006-01-19 20:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-19 21:22 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-19 22:17 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 22:32 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 23:26 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 23:43 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-20 2:17 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-20 10:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 12:06 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 18:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 22:09 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21 0:06 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 18:41 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 17:29 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-20 18:36 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 22:57 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21 0:01 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21 0:03 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21 0:08 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21 0:13 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 9:44 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 10:26 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 10:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 10:45 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 11:00 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 12:54 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-23 13:00 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-01-23 13:54 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 17:33 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-24 2:02 ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-20 16:48 Hubert Tonneau
2006-01-20 17:01 Hubert Tonneau
2006-01-20 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-22 6:45 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-01-20 18:05 Hubert Tonneau
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