From: Spelic <spelic@shiftmail.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove doesn't work the way the man page says
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:45:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511C33AF.7020506@shiftmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511BB48A.3010009@ubuntu.com>
On 02/13/13 16:43, Phillip Susi wrote:
> there is one mirror segment for the
> entire logical volume being moved, and a linear for the next logical
> volume.
> 2. Every logical volume in the volume group is searched for
contiguous data that need moving according to the command line arguments.
> For each piece of data found, a new segment is added to the end
of the pvmove LV. This segment takes the form of a temporary mirror
so it DOES behave according to the manpage
breaking it up in smaller subsegments would probably have been wiser,
except that you risk to induce fragmentation if other LVM operations
happen during the move.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-14 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-13 15:43 [linux-lvm] pvmove doesn't work the way the man page says Phillip Susi
2013-02-14 0:45 ` Spelic [this message]
2013-02-14 0:58 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-02-14 13:25 ` Marian Csontos
2013-02-14 13:41 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-02-14 16:54 ` Marian Csontos
2013-02-15 9:22 ` Lars Ellenberg
2013-03-09 18:04 ` Phillip Susi
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