From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
Cc: Christopher White <linux@pulseforce.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm does not create partition devices whatsoever, "partitionable" functionality broken
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:39:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCD890A.8000706@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110514013221.552dc8ef@natsu>
On 05/13/2011 03:32 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2011 15:22:09 -0400
> Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org> wrote:
>
>> I always use LVM. While the lack of attention to MD partitions might
>> justify that, the real reason is the sheer convenience of creating,
>> manipulating, and deleting logical volumes on the fly. While you may not
>> need it *now*, when you discover that you *do* need it, you won't be able to
>> use it. Online resizing of any of your LVs is the killer feature.
>
> Can it defragment non-contiguous LVs yet?
Automatically, no (so far as I've seen). If you have a suitable free space chunk in the group, though, you can manually create a contiguous mirror, let it sync, then remove the original segments. Do it twice if placement is critical.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-13 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-13 15:13 mdadm does not create partition devices whatsoever, "partitionable" functionality broken Christopher White
2011-05-13 16:49 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-13 17:18 ` Christopher White
2011-05-13 17:32 ` Christopher White
2011-05-13 17:40 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-13 18:04 ` Christopher White
2011-05-13 18:18 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-13 18:54 ` Christopher White
2011-05-13 19:01 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-05-13 19:49 ` Christopher White
2011-05-13 20:00 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-05-13 19:49 ` Christopher White
2011-05-13 19:22 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-13 19:32 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-13 19:39 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2011-05-14 10:10 ` David Brown
2011-05-14 10:24 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-14 12:56 ` David Brown
2011-05-14 13:27 ` Drew
2011-05-14 18:21 ` David Brown
2011-05-13 17:43 ` Phil Turmel
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