I run 3 VGs of 1-3TB each and I'm about to migrate them to a hardware
raid (3ware). Using individual disks, expanding my VGs was easy. Using
hardware raid, it get a single huge PV instead, that simply grows, if
I ever extend the underlaying raid. From the previous discussions it
seems, "pvresize" is still beta, but will be available soon.
Alternatively I may think of creating partitions on this raid-PV. Thus I
will get additional PVs (partitions) when growing my raid. But I dislike
to depend on this stone-aged DOS-partitioning system (if it is capable
to handle 4-10Tb disks at all). Should I consider other partition systems?
After the decision to use or not to use partitioning, it will be
difficult to change it on later.
Any advice?
BTW:
I'm using an PE-size of 32MB (and lvm2 of course). Does this limit my
max VG size? I already find one of my VGs with a "total PE 0 = 71538",
thus it seems not to be limited to 65536, as with LVM1, any more.
Dieter.
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