On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:36:07PM +0100, jon+lvm@silicide.dk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:59:59PM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > > > > -- Jon Bendtsen <jon+lvm@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. > > that would be included in being future proof ;-D > Besides, he wants to stripe it, and you cant extend a stripped > LV (as far as i know). Yes, you can. Stripes are linited by the physical volume size in LVM1 though and the only way to grow a striped LV there is to pvmove the stripe to a larger PV and extend the LV afterwards. LVM2 doesn't have such constraint any longer :) > > > > JonB > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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/
