On 05/13/2011 03:32 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2011 15:22:09 -0400 > Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I always use LVM. While the lack of attention to MD partitions might >> justify that, the real reason is the sheer convenience of creating, >> manipulating, and deleting logical volumes on the fly. While you may not >> need it *now*, when you discover that you *do* need it, you won't be able to >> use it. Online resizing of any of your LVs is the killer feature. > > Can it defragment non-contiguous LVs yet? Automatically, no (so far as I've seen). If you have a suitable free space chunk in the group, though, you can manually create a contiguous mirror, let it sync, then remove the original segments. Do it twice if placement is critical. Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
