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From: Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer@metamorpher.de>
To: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
Cc: Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linear device of two arrays
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 00:20:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170707222030.GA26535@metamorpher.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170708025318.216210e7@natsu>

On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 02:53:18AM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> however it requires a shrinkable filesystem, and XFS cannot be shrunk.

There's a description of the manual process here:

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Howto/LVM_nachtr%C3%A4glich_einrichten/

(Sorry it's in German)

You have to adapt it to use two extents on another PV instead 
of shrinking the filesystem or growing the existing blockdevice.

It can be done, but yeah it's a bit of voodoo.
Copying is safer.

Regards
Andreas Klauer

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-07 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-05 15:34 Linear device of two arrays Veljko
2017-07-05 16:42 ` Roman Mamedov
2017-07-05 18:07   ` Wols Lists
2017-07-07 11:07     ` Nix
2017-07-07 20:26     ` Veljko
2017-07-07 21:20       ` Andreas Klauer
2017-07-07 21:53         ` Roman Mamedov
2017-07-07 22:20           ` Andreas Klauer [this message]
2017-07-07 22:33           ` Andreas Klauer
2017-07-07 22:52       ` Stan Hoeppner
2017-07-08 10:26         ` Veljko
2017-07-08 21:24           ` Stan Hoeppner
2017-07-09 22:37             ` NeilBrown
2017-07-10 11:03               ` Veljko
2017-07-12 10:21                 ` Veljko
2017-07-14  2:03                   ` NeilBrown
2017-07-14  1:57                 ` NeilBrown
2017-07-14  2:05                   ` NeilBrown
2017-07-14 13:40                   ` Veljko
2017-07-15  0:12                     ` NeilBrown
2017-07-17 10:16                       ` Veljko
2017-07-18  8:58                         ` Veljko
2017-07-20 21:40                           ` Veljko
2017-07-20 22:00                         ` NeilBrown
2017-07-21  9:15                           ` Veljko
2017-07-21 11:37                             ` Veljko
2017-07-22 23:03                               ` NeilBrown
2017-07-23 10:05                                 ` Veljko

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