[linux-lvm] Problems and questions with LVM on a large raid system.

[Steven Lembark]

-- Jon Bendtsen <jon+lvm at silicide.dk>

>> > that depends. You can stripe the lvm, but then you cant resize it.
>> > if you made a LV, then it would proberly just allokate all on one
>> > "disk", aka sda, and then on sdb.
>>
>>     I'm using 100% of the VG for the same LV.
>>
>>     I'm fine with not being able to resize it. Do I need the MD stuff to
>>     stripe it?
>
> No. You can stripe using the LV system. But i would think that
> if you can shutdown the LV, then you might as well stop the VG,
> and do it on the raw device. (except this isnt as future proof
> as a LVM system is).

Nor as flexable: with LVM you can easily grow the LV's, with
out LVM you are stuck with fixed partitions.




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