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On 12/11/12 14:50, Duke Nguyen wrote: > We also thought of using LVM on top of RAID disks, but never think > of XFS. Why do we need XFS and how does this compare with GPFS? Apples and oranges really, I was trying to give a flavour of the fact that you can do what you ask with a variety of solutions. > The RAID software (megaRAID) also states that new disks can be > added on the fly, but I have no idea if the new disks can also be > formatted and ready together with the available storage. Everything > is still very new to me. I can't see any reason why not, you just need to tell the kernel to rescan the SCSI bus. cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCpo7kACgkQO2KABBYQAh+zGQCfaFceXTcIddoZXExCnidh9pZl fcsAoINTkunJh4qnqI3xtE3wEU5qCVVl =hESV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
