On 9/1/2010 11:29 AM, Yaron wrote: > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Mr. MailingLists wrote: > >> Yaron, we often do "Online Resizing" to grow our LVs live and in >> production, which are ext3fs. I believe the Linux kernel was patched to >> allow online resizing, when and where I am unsure, but it is perfectly >> safe on recent distros. At least version >= Ubuntu 8.04 works well. > > Oh I know it works, heck, it worked, no problem. I mean it was a BIT > scary, but it's always gonna be scary messing with filesystems. > > I'm also wondering if doing it offline would've been faster. > > -Yaron Probably, we usually only add 5 gigs or so from the pool at a time, only takes about 3 minutes or so to complete. True about the scary part, especially with critical data and moving around the backups :(. I will see how a feel tonight (damn WoW) and may want to fire up a VM to dink and report back. Breaking stuff is fun especially when there are no consequences. ~M