Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:17:15AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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. 

Try the scenario where the resize takes a week, and you don't have enough
spare disks to move it onto another server -- besides, that would take
several days alone... This is the kind of use-case for which I wrote the
original patch, and I'm grateful that Neil has picked it up again so we can
finally get something working in.

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