[linux-lvm] Stripe size of 2K allowed?

Heinz J. Mauelshagen Mauelshagen at sistina.com
Wed Feb 21 10:08:49 UTC 2001


On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:03:03PM -0800, Jos Visser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to create a striped lvol with a stripe size of 2K. This
> failed due to an illegal parameter:
> 
> # lvcreate -i 2 -I 2 -L 100 vg01
> lvcreate -- invalid stripe size 2
> 
> It seems that stripe sizes of 1K and 2K are not allowed, although the
> lvcreate manual page says that the stripe size is 2^n with 0<=n<=7.

An error in the documentation.
The minimum stripe size is 4k.

Going to correct it...

> 
> Duh?
> 
> ++Jos
> 
> 
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