Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

[Joachim Dagerot]

Hmm, this completely ruined just about all of my storage plans. :-)

Do anyone know other (read hardware) RAID-systems that are known to work
well with freeBSD and also allows me to increase the total diskspace
without dataloss?


On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > Is it possible to just 'plug-in' another disk to a vinum RAID-5
> > array and let vinum start building a new index based on the new
> > volume-size?
> 
> No, sorry.  You can (forcibly) add another plex (I think), but it will
> involve complete data loss (another way to say backup/restore data).