From: "Matt P" <slarty.tj@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove to smaller PVs
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:57:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <859a78260604051057r23b2da4bsd6388a2e193bda66@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060405174425.GX4197@agk.surrey.redhat.com>
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I'm no expert, mostly just a lurker on this list, but couldn't you SoftRAID
the 4 120GB's together then PV move the 300GB to the logical disk?
On 4/5/06, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:34:18PM +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> > Can pvmove not just divide that storage into three "partitions",
>
> There's no logic to do that yet. It can only move complete sets of
> contiguous extents.
>
> > Is there a way for me to tell it to do so?
>
> As you found: break up contiguous extents explicitly on
> the command line by telling it to move smaller parts that it
> can handle.
>
> Use '--alloc anywhere' if you need to move data within a single PV.
>
> Alasdair
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-05 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-05 17:34 [linux-lvm] pvmove to smaller PVs Fredrik Tolf
2006-04-05 17:44 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-04-05 17:57 ` Matt P [this message]
2006-04-05 17:58 ` Fredrik Tolf
2006-04-05 18:03 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-04-05 18:30 ` Fredrik Tolf
2006-04-27 10:39 ` Dieter Stüken
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