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Re: XFS + LVM + Epanding; shrinking XFS??

To: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS + LVM + Epanding; shrinking XFS??
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08 May 2001 19:46:01 -0400
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>>>>> "Austin" == Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Austin> Ok, here's a REALLY hard question then. How can you grow, with
Austin> LVM, a XFS filesystem, that is a LVM raid0? 

Just do it<tm>

LVM stripes data across its allocation units (PEs/LEs), and when
you're extending you're just adding more extents to the pool.

The allocator will most likely round your specified size to a stripe
boundary.

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Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/
SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

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