Softraid is not a volume manager. We don't support adding, removing chunks
after creation time. I'll take diffs for this however this is pretty far from
trivial.

On Oct 23, 2010, at 17:51, "Jean-Francois" <jfsimon1981@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Le Sunday 24 October 2010 00:34:53, Tomas Bodzar a C)crit :
>> I think that this will solve your hunt for informations ;-)
>> http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2010_softraid/softraid.pdf
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Jean-Francois <jfsimon1981@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having difficulty to understand how softraid works ie. how to add
>>> chunks, remove chunks, change and rebuild, add/remove hotspares.
>>>
>>> The manpages bioctl & softraid only mention basic configuration, but once
>>> the raid is working ... any other related docs or man ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> J-F
>
> Thanks, it effectively helps to understand how it works, but not yet the
> command lines used to add-change-remove-rename chuncks or hotspares.
>
> At least, I can't figure out how to do it, I just could understand how to
> basically set it up, or let say "initialize" a softraid.
>
> I'm limited to basics, I could'nt yet do advanced configuration of an
already
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> built raid, I could not figure out with available docs (including above
> mentionned one) and the man pages.
>
> Regards