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