Re: [linux-lvm] extending striped lv

[Jan Schreckenbach <Jan.Schreckenbach@sap.com>]

AJ Lewis wrote:
> Nope, you can only extend a striped LV on the PV's it is currently on.
> After that you either have to pvmove it to larger PVs or rebuild with more
> disks.
> 
> If you want to be able to extend LVs and need software striping, you might
> want to consider using MD striping underneath LVM.
> 
AJ,

does this mean I can initially build a striped LV from two smaller
disks, let me say sda and sdb and later move the LE from sda to sdc
and from sdb to sdd (where sdc and sdb a bigger than sda/sdb)? 
It is to be said that the performance of md RAID0 is somewhat better
than from striped LV's but I would prefer LVM if I could extend
a striped LV without rebuilding RAID/restoring data.

cu,
Jan

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