[linux-lvm] raid10 to raid what? - convert

[lejeczek]

On 17/10/17 21:57, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> You still haven't said what you are trying to accomplish.  
> I wouldn't
> have bothered responding to such a vague question until 
> you provided
> some tantalizing clues.  Until your lastest clues, I would 
> have advised
> using rsync or dd to copy your data to a new volume.  But 
> now it sounds
> like you ran out of budget for another disk, or need to 
> minimize down
> time, and want to reconfigure in place.
>

gee, with this much enthusiasm I can imagine you solve many 
problems, however I can also imagine at the same time you 
create also problems that do not exists.
but honestly & truthfully appreciate this enthusiasm & help.

> First off, raid10 is a linux specialty (I didn't know LVM 
> supported it,
> thanks!), and is not the same as raid1+0 (raid1 on top of 
> raid0).
> However, your previous clue tells us that probably you 
> have at least 4
> disks in your raid10.  So you should be able to remove 2 
> legs from the
> raid10, and still have the equivalent of a raid0.  But 
> this is not
> certain as raid10 works perfectly well with 2 or 3 disks, 
> including the
> redundancy.  In any case, you can remove at least 1 leg 
> from your
> raid10.  Be sure to backup first in any case.
>
> Now that you've cut the disk used in half (and your data 
> is precariously
> dependent on the health of *both* underlying physical 
> disks), what did
> you want to do next?  Maybe you just want to create a 
> different kind of
> raid with the released space and do that rsync or dd?
>

I'm still looking for an answer - if it's possible then how 
to split raid10 into two raid0 LVs(with perhaps having data 
intact?)
I've been fiddling with --splitmirrors but either I got it 
wrong or I didn't and command just fails.
More than contemplating theories and general knowledge on 
raid I'd prise a lot succinct, concrete info, actuall 
experience of "howto".

But I shall now try my fiddling virtualized way, problem at 
hand I had, I had to solve different way completely.

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, lejeczek wrote:
>
>> no other raids but LVM's own.
>> not much in configuration, unless I misunderstand, 
>> question I'm posing is simple - is it possible to 
>> convert/split lvm raid10 LV into two raid0 LVs? (here one 
>> thing comes to mind: data stays intact?) Or raid10 LV to 
>> any other raid?
>>
>> As I sroogled I saw there is "mirror spitting" but term 
>> raid10 does not appear in that context, or I failed to 
>> find it.
>>
>> But man pages also mention, with regards to raid takeover:
>> "..
>>        ·  between striped/raid0 and raid10.
>> ..."
>> So it sounds like possible(so no other raid levels but 
>> these two), only might be intricate process/procedure, 
>> which is not documented, or again, I failed to find it.
>
>
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