[ILUG] Terabyte Server

[Nick Murtagh]

On Thursday 31 January 2002 14:38, you wrote:
>      I was reading the article on the building of a terabyte server and
> started thinking how would a person go about upgrading the drives after the
> server was put into production.  Example expanding the drives from 100 gb
> to 160 gb per drive.  Can this be done without backing up the raid
> partition, replacing the drives in the set, repartitioning for the new raid
> partition, restoring data, and letting users back on it?

I think you can do that sort of thing with the Logical Volume Manager which
lets you add or remove physical devices from a pool which is used to create
logical devices on which you store your filesystems. Or something :)