Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:36:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at  0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
....
>> 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?
>
>I don't.

The problem isn't the RAID system, but the UFS file system which doesn't
allow expansion.  Vinum's ``concat'' mode allows one to add capacity, but
not to expand the size of existing file systems.

Are there any file systems that work with FreeBSD that allow expansion
after the fact?

Bill
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