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

Joe Thornber joe at 66bassett.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Feb 21 08:50:13 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.
> 

This has been changed so the minimum size is the page size of your
system.  I'll update the man page.

- Joe



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