[linux-lvm] lvchange and stripes

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Thu Oct 18 13:09:02 UTC 2001


On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:57:03AM +0200, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I've got a problem that seems to striping related: I cannot extend dev lv, 
> probably because LVM insists upon splitting the LV to 3 discs.
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> Now my problem is, that I haven't found a way to change the stripe 
> configuration of a LV. :(

I'm afraid thats a current limitation on striped LVs. The only way to extend one
after the disks become full is to pvmove the stripes onto 3 new disks :-( 


patrick





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