What are the recognized ways to increase the size of the RAID array online/offline?
- by user149509
Is it possible, in theory, increase the size of the RAID-array of any level just by adding new drive(s)?
Variant like "backup whole data - delete old array - add/replace disks - create new array - restore data" is obvious so what are the other options?
Does it depend on the RAID-level only or on the implementation of RAID-controller only, or on both?
Adding new disks to a striped array necessarily leads to a rebuilding of the array
with the redistribution of the strips to the new drives?
What steps should be done to increase size of RAID-array in online/offline scenarios?
Especially interesting RAID-5 and RAID-10.
I would like to see the big picture.