[linux-lvm] specifying contiguous yields odd results
ben
benscott at nwlink.com
Tue Apr 23 04:09:59 UTC 2013
I have discovered something strange when extending a striped logical volume.
For example, start with a volume that has three physical volumes and three
stripes then run lvextend on it. If the policy is set to 'contiguous' then all
the physical volumes of the last segment must be on the command line. What is
odd is that the striping can be set to a lower number so not all those
physical volumes are really used.
~#lvs --segments -o +devices
LV VG Attr #Str Type SSize Devices
lvol0 vg8 -wi-a---- 3 striped 2.00g /dev/sdc(0),/dev/sdd(0),/dev/sde(0)
~# lvextend -i 2 --alloc contiguous -l +2049 vg8/lvol0 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
Using stripesize of last segment 64.00 KiB
Rounding size (6147 extents) up to stripe boundary size for segment (6148
extents)
Extending logical volume lvol0 to 3.00 GiB
Insufficient suitable contiguous allocatable extents for logical volume lvol0:
2050 more required
~# lvextend -i 2 --alloc contiguous -l +2049 vg8/lvol0 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
/dev/sde
Using stripesize of last segment 64.00 KiB
Rounding size (6147 extents) up to stripe boundary size for segment (6148
extents)
Extending logical volume lvol0 to 3.00 GiB
Logical volume lvol0 successfully resized
~# lvs --segments -o +devices
LV VG Attr #Str Type SSize Devices
lvol0 vg8 -wi-a---- 3 striped 2.00g /dev/sdc(0),/dev/sdd(0),/dev/sde(0)
lvol0 vg8 -wi-a---- 2 striped 1.00g /dev/sdc(1366),/dev/sdd(1366)
Is it intended that with contiguous allocation the striping should match or
not? Thank you.
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