On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:23:03PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote: > Then I have written a simple Perl script to lvextend the test_lv volume > by 1 extent from either md5 or md6, depending on which one has the higher > fraction of free extents. This way I will get as perfect interleaving as I > can get on the PVs of different size. The method you're using means every extent gets listed separately in the metadata, so you'll need to prepare a lot more space for it when you run pvcreate. Check out the --metadatasize option to pvcreate. [NB You can't manipulate these settings yet without losing the data on the device] [A striping implementation which lets you specify differently-sized chunks for each device, anyone?] Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/