AoE and Windows volume resizing.

[Yacine]

Hi,

Anyone have tool recommendation for resizing Windows AoE volumes?

Use case: Today I have 1TB mounted on a Win box (AoE), tomorrow I'll add some disks and would like to extend the mounted FS (without any down time).

Would appreciate any infos on :
- FS (other than NTFS)
- Tools (partition magic...)
- .../...

This is for a production platform, failure/down time are not possible.

BTW what is the situation exaclty for volume > 2TB (StarPort v3, Windows requirements...)?

Thank you,
Yacine

[Val (staff)]

Anyone have tool recommendation for resizing Windows AoE volumes?

Use case: Today I have 1TB mounted on a Win box (AoE), tomorrow I'll add some disks and would like to extend the mounted FS (without any down time).

Would appreciate any infos on :
- FS (other than NTFS)
- Tools (partition magic...)
- .../...

This is for a production platform, failure/down time are not possible.

BTW what is the situation exaclty for volume > 2TB (StarPort v3, Windows requirements...)?

Hi Yacine,

Our StarPort driver knows nothing about internals of AoE devices it mounts.
I'd suggest you to contact Coraid's support (support@coraid.com) for more details about their volume management interface.

StarPort v3.0 supports large disks (>2TB), but you need Windows 2003 SP1 to be able to use such drives.
For older Windows versions you could split your large AoE device into several logical drives under 2TB each.