From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems and questions with LVM on a large raid system. Message-ID: <20030318101206.D30525@sistina.com> References: <20030312195217.GC18876@auctionwatch.com> <20030312221320.GA15196@gw.silicide.dk> <20030312234520.GA19335@auctionwatch.com> <3E704492.DF386E61@silicide.dk> <140770000.1047758399@[192.168.200.4]> <20030315223607.GA16976@gw.silicide.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030315223607.GA16976@gw.silicide.dk>; from jon+lvm@silicide.dk on Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:36:07PM +0100 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: Date: Tue Mar 18 03:14:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:36:07PM +0100, jon+lvm@silicide.dk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:59:59PM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > > > > -- Jon Bendtsen > > > > >>> that depends. You can stripe the lvm, but then you cant resize it. > > >>> if you made a LV, then it would proberly just allokate all on one > > >>> "disk", aka sda, and then on sdb. > > >> > > >> I'm using 100% of the VG for the same LV. > > >> > > >> I'm fine with not being able to resize it. Do I need the MD stuff to > > >> stripe it? > > > > > >No. You can stripe using the LV system. But i would think that > > >if you can shutdown the LV, then you might as well stop the VG, > > >and do it on the raw device. (except this isnt as future proof > > >as a LVM system is). > > > > Nor as flexable: with LVM you can easily grow the LV's, with > > out LVM you are stuck with fixed partitions. > > that would be included in being future proof ;-D > Besides, he wants to stripe it, and you cant extend a stripped > LV (as far as i know). Yes, you can. Stripes are linited by the physical volume size in LVM1 though and the only way to grow a striped LV there is to pvmove the stripe to a larger PV and extend the LV afterwards. LVM2 doesn't have such constraint any longer :) > > > > JonB > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-