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From: Torsten Neumann <torsten@londo.rhein-main.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvextend
Date: 30 Dec 1999 22:13:59 +0100
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Adam Crews <acrews@cisco.com> wrote:

> Yes I do want one big lv.  I used lvm so that as I add disks I can just
> grow the fs without needing to re-do md devices or things like that.

> What I figured out is that you cannot extend a striped lv.  even if I have
> 2 partitions to add to a lv that has 2 stripes, I still cant extend the
> volume.

Are you using 0.7 ? There is a bug that avoids extending striped lvs under
some circumstances. Update to 0.8i or apply the following diff

--- pv_move.c.orig	Thu Dec 30 22:10:44 1999
+++ pv_move.c	Thu Dec 30 22:11:25 1999
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
 
       for ( pe = 0; pe < pe_to_move; pe++) {
          if ( lv_check_on_pv ( vg->pv[dst_pv_index],
-                               pe_src[pe].lv_num - 1) == TRUE &&
+                               pe_src[pe].lv_num) == TRUE &&
               vg->lv[pe_src[pe].lv_num-1]->lv_stripes > 1) break;
          if ( ( vg->lv[pe_src[pe].lv_num-1]->lv_allocation & LV_CONTIGUOUS) &&
               pv_check_free_contiguous ( vg->pv[dst_pv_index],


Torsten