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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/mapmode.html">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/mapmode.html</a>
states:</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'>"</span></font>In LVM 2, striped LVs
can be extended by concatenating another set of devices onto the end of the
first set. So you can get into a situation where your LV is a 2 stripe set
concatenated with a linear set concatenated with a 4 stripe set. Are you confused
yet?<font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:teal'>I need to start with a 2 disk (therefore,
2 stripe) logical volume, that I later extend with 2 more disks.  How is this
done?</span></font></p>

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href="mailto:Lemons_Terry@emc.com">Lemons_Terry@emc.com</a></span></font></p>

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