Re: Converting RAID Striping from 4Disks to 8Disks

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Neil,
> 
> By ending RAID protection it's freeing up the areas on the 4 disks used
> for parity protection, then by starting it across 8 drives it allocates
> space on all 8 disks.  Space should obviously be immediately available
> on the 4 you just stopped RAID protection on, but it may need to move
> data around from the other 4 disks before it can activate RAID.
> When you restart RAID it should ask you to select the disks to spread
> parity over (4 or 8).

  Thanks, I will try this again some time because I don't remember that
last option.  But I repeat my earlier statement:

> >   None of this qualifies as a 'Simple command in OS/400'.
  
   Who writes those books???

   Larry Bolhuis
   Arbor Solutions, Inc
   lbolhui@ibm.net
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