Re: Re: Convert a non-striped LV to a striped LV without data loss?

["Doug Eubanks" <admin@dougware.net>]

I ended up reformatting (after making a fresh backup) and starting over.  I couldn't find a way to get around the metadata space limitation.  I believe thought that I future proofed my installation so that it wouldn't happen again.  I set aside 8M for the metadata when I used the pvcreate command.

Thanks for trying to help me out,

Sincerely,
Doug Eubanks
admin@dougware.net

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Doug Eubanks <admin@dougware.net> wrote:

I tried moving every third extend with an offset of 1 to the second physical volume, and every third extend with and offset of 2 to the third physical volume, but I ran out of metadata space about 45% through the move.

I've setup a file based metadata directory, and I'm going to try to complete the move again.

Sincerely,
Doug Eubanks
admin@dougware.net

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de> wrote:

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:14:26PM -0500, Doug Eubanks wrote:
> Would it be possible to extend the linear lv onto a striped lv area, move
> the data to the new extents and then remove the old lv area using lvreduce
> perhaps?

Oh, that. Yes, perfectly. Add the new PVs to the VG using vgextend, then
create whatever LV layout you need on the new PVs (lvcreate ... -i ... PV),
mkfs, then copy the data to the new filesystems, rearrange mountpoints,
then vgreduce the old PV from the VG.  Done. But not on-line... you can
move LVs to another PV within a VG, but you can't convert a normal LV to a
striped one.

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