On Sun, 2 May 2010, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
> My raid chunk size is 64k and I am using 5 data-bearing discs (raid 5
> with 6 discs), so the raid stripe size should be 64k * 5 = 320k.
>
> But unfortunately the --physicalextentsize must be a power of 2, so I
> cannot use a multiple of 320k as the physical extent size.
>
> What are your experiences with tuning and properly aligning lvm + raid?
> Does anyone know a workaround?
Use 4 data bearing disks. Let #6 be a spare. You're supposed to have
a spare anyway.
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