[Linux-cluster] Grow pool without adding subpools

[John Newbigin]

Is is possible/useful to create pools on top of LVM on top of hardware 
raid?  Would that help in this situation?

Does anyone use gfs on hardware raid?

John.

John Newbigin wrote:

> David Aquilina wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:37:47 +1100, John Newbigin <jn at it.swin.edu.au> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I though pool-tool -g would do it but it seems that can only add 
>>> subpools.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there any particular reason you don't want to add a subpool? As far
>> as I know, adding subpools is the only way to grow a pool, and won't
>> have any other effect than a slightly longer pool configuration
>> file...
>>
> I am using hardware raid.  There is just one device which represents the 
> array (/dev/cciss/c0d1).  The size of this device has grown but I need 
> to grow the pool to fill it.
> 
> Perhaps there is a better way.  I am still testing so I can recreate it 
> differently if necessary.
> 
> John.
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