On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, ZECHA,HOLGER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to create a logical volume of 40GB Size using a physical 9GB disks,is > there a way to create a logical volume in the way, that the first logical > extend is on disk one, the second on disk two, ... the 7th on disk one and > so on ? > > Meaning all logical extends are distributed accross all disks. > > In HP-UX lvdisplay wwill look like this: > --- Logical extents --- > LE PV1 PE1 Status 1 > 00000 /dev/dsk/c16t0d0 00012 current > 00001 /dev/dsk/c16t0d1 00012 current > 00002 /dev/dsk/c17t0d2 00000 current > 00003 /dev/dsk/c17t0d3 00000 current > 00004 /dev/dsk/c16t0d4 00000 current > 00005 /dev/dsk/c16t0d5 00000 current > 00006 /dev/dsk/c17t0d6 00000 current > 00007 /dev/dsk/c17t0d7 00000 current > 00008 /dev/dsk/c16t1d0 00000 current > 00009 /dev/dsk/c16t1d1 00000 current > 00010 /dev/dsk/c17t1d2 00000 current > 00011 /dev/dsk/c17t1d3 00000 current > 00012 /dev/dsk/c16t1d4 00000 current > > Holger > How about striping with the strip size equal to that of a logical extent? otherwise if you have quite alot of disk space on another drive you could create your lv on that one then move the extents one at a time to the destinations drives using pvmove..... One does wonder why you want to do this! James _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
