From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:20:32 +0200 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] expanding physical disks Message-ID: <20010613152032.A18554@colombina.comedia.it> References: <20010612212804.P1658@pc.ilinx> <200106130710.f5D7AhaX005430@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200106130710.f5D7AhaX005430@webber.adilger.int>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:10:42AM -0600 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \