On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Ph. Marek wrote: > Hi everybody! > > As seen in > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-lvm&m=99121490215720&w=2 > there is a reference to restriping a LV after adding a disk in may 2001. > It's mentioned to be "post 1.0" - I currently use 1.0.1-rc2 (suse 7.3) and > find 1.0.1-rc4 on the 'net - is restriping a LV already done? > > I thought about doing it per perl-script or similar - but pvmove does not > know that the PE it moved are free afterwards. > So if I have a non-striped LV, with extends (say) 0-9. > I add a disk and pvmove 1:3:5:7:9 to the new disk - works beautiful. > Then I want to get part of the LV on the first PV continuous - so I > pvmove 2:4:7:8 to the same disk as they are on - but they land on > 1,3,5,7 instead of 1,2,3,4. > > But this is maybe too slow anyway (with perl) - I'd need it for several > tens of GB. > > > Can somebody give me a hint? If you want use PVmove get 1.0.3 I moved Strips with that one, it has fixed the free problem. pvmove ....... /oldpv /newpv IF you want to tell it where to put it. I used PV move for a 40 Gb strip... it took about an hour for me. James _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
