From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] expanding physical disks
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:20:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010613152032.A18554@colombina.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106130710.f5D7AhaX005430@webber.adilger.int>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:10:42AM -0600
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:10:42AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Brian Murrell writes:
> > How does LVM deal with physical disks that can get bigger or smaller,
> > such as a hardware RAID device? What happens to a PV on a hardware
> > RAID-5 device that is presented to the system as a single (say scsci)
> > target when you put a few more disks in it and tell the hardware raid
> > device to add them to the given (scsi) target that a PV was created
> > on? (what a mouthful).
>
> Doesn't work at this time. LVM will only see what was originally there
> at the time pvcreate was run (or possibly vgcreate/vgextend).
At the moment your only chance is to create partitions on it and use those
partitions as PVs
L.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-13 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-13 4:28 [linux-lvm] expanding physical disks Brian J. Murrell
2001-06-13 7:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-06-13 13:20 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2001-06-15 14:11 ` Hugo Lombard
2001-06-15 14:51 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-06-15 15:57 ` Hugo Lombard
2001-06-13 17:22 ` Paul Jarc
2001-06-15 10:29 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
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