[linux-lvm] extending striped lv

AJ Lewis lewis at sistina.com
Mon Aug 27 17:42:12 UTC 2001


On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:28:59AM +0200, Goetz Bock wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23 '01 at 16:23, Brad Langhorst wrote:
> > [ ... extending a (striped) LV ... ]
> I'm not 100% positive, but AFAIK you can extend striped LV, but if you
> do the extened LV is only partially striped.

Nope, you can only extend a striped LV on the PV's it is currently on.
After that you either have to pvmove it to larger PVs or rebuild with more
disks.

If you want to be able to extend LVs and need software striping, you might
want to consider using MD striping underneath LVM.

Regards,
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