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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer@metamorpher.de>
Cc: Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linear device of two arrays
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 02:53:18 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170708025318.216210e7@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170707212036.GA26305@metamorpher.de>

On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 23:20:36 +0200
Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer@metamorpher.de> wrote:

> Put LVM on top?
> 
> You could create LVM on the new array, copy your files over, then extend.
> 
> If you know LVM _really_ well, it's also possible to convert existing 
> filesystems without moving data (other than relocating the parts 
> occupied/unusable by LVM, i.e. one extent-size worth of data at 
> start and end of disk).

There is this tool which can convert filesystems/partitions to LVM in-place:

  https://github.com/g2p/blocks

however it requires a shrinkable filesystem, and XFS cannot be shrunk.

(Also it appears unmaintained with a number of long-standing unresolved
issues).

-- 
With respect,
Roman

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-07 21:53 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 [this message]
2017-07-07 22:20           ` Andreas Klauer
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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