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From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate contiguous flag question
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:15:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010910131516.D31313@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B9BD5BD.6060606@ida.xs4all.nl>; from lists@ida.xs4all.nl on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:49:01PM +0200

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:49:01PM +0200, Jorg de Jong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created a lv with the option --contiguous y.
> But since my disks are rather full the created lv was NOT contiguous.
> 
> Strange.
> 
> If I try to change the allocation policy from contiguous to next free and to
> contiugues again for this lv, it will fail. It will only let me set it to
> next free. This makes sence since the lv is already fragmented.
> 
> But why is a newly created lv that has a allocation policy contiguous
> but is fragmented non the less not reset to next free ? Or not created at all ?

It shouldn't be silently created next free.

Will check the code...

> 
> regards,
> 
> Jorg de Jong.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-09-10 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-09 20:49 [linux-lvm] lvcreate contiguous flag question Jorg de Jong
2001-09-10 11:15 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]

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