Re: RAIDFRAME shrink

To: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: RAIDFRAME shrink
From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:18:34 +0100

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:20:40AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Is it possible to shrink RAID1 devices?

No, RAIDframe only provides RAID functionality, not logical volume
management.

NetBSD-current provides LVM support via the dm(4) kernel module and
the Linux LVM tools. You can combine LVM with RAIDframe by e.g.
using a RAID 1 volume as the storage pool for LVM.

> Any other suggestions?

I'm afraid you will have to use backup and restore.

        Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/

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