From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i7PJP7305733 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:25:07 -0400 Received: from mail2.m-cam.com ([63.124.102.77]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7PJP27w019759 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:25:02 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.m-cam.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8A33E8EE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:19:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail2.m-cam.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.m-cam.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04614-07 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:19:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.21] (unknown [192.168.1.21]) by mail2.m-cam.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89E83E8B9 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:19:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <412CE781.9000409@m-cam.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:24:49 -0400 From: Arshavir Grigorian MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] partition strategy Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi, This is my first post, so please bear with me. I have 2 free disk areas 230G and 231G. I hoping to take advantage of RAID-0. Is it better to create 3 partitions 2 x230G + 1G - create a striped LV over the first 2, then add the third to the volume group, then extend the LV over to the new 1G extension (since LVM2 allows extending striped lv-s). And if so, does the non-striped area get used as a last resort (after the striped area is completely full)? OR Is it better to create 2 paritions 230G and 231G, put both in a vg, create a striped lv and lvm will take care of striping to the 230G mark, then writing linearly afterwards. TIA for any advice. Best, Arshavir