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Extending a stripped Logical Volume

linux-lvm Olmo González 1 participant 1 message Dec 24, 2004

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Hi,

I am new to this list, seeking for some help.

I have setup LVM2 under debian sarge (2.6.8-k7 kernel).

I originally created a volumen group (nasvg) on 4 x ST3200822A ATA DISK drives. I created a stripped logical volume spanning these 4 disks and using up al PE's available. I then attached two aditional ST3200822A ATA DISK drives and I would now want to resive my logical volumen to use al the PE's provided by the two new disks. The problem is I can't extend the logical volume, getting the following error:

gollum:~# lvextend -L+1G /dev/nasvg/naslv
 Using stripesize of last segment 64KB
 Extending logical volume naslv to 746.23 GB
 Insufficient allocatable extents suitable for parallel use for logical 
volume naslv: 191036 required

I have been googl'ing and it seems that this has to do with restrictions on resizing sttriped LV's. However, the information I have found says the restrictions no longer apply to LVM2.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm thinking of creating a linear lv spanning al 6 disks but this would mean backing up ~600gb of data which could be a pain...

Here is my output for both vgdisplay and lvdisplay.

gollum:~# vgdisplay
 --- Volume group ---
 VG Name               nasvg
 System ID
 Format                lvm2
 Metadata Areas        6
 Metadata Sequence No  25
 VG Access             read/write
 VG Status             resizable
 MAX LV                0
 Cur LV                1
 Open LV               1
 Max PV                0
 Cur PV                6
 Act PV                6
 VG Size               1.09 TB
 PE Size               4.00 MB
 Total PE              286168
 Alloc PE / Size       190780 / 745.23 GB
 Free  PE / Size       95388 / 372.61 GB
 VG UUID               LWqtTF-F8vA-yjXt-AYwK-yFQr-skDa-s9UVRC

--- Logical volume ---

 LV Name                /dev/nasvg/naslv
 VG Name                nasvg
 LV UUID                GMm5PD-6Rdk-h8lG-35Fw-rZp3-L42s-N6k9QC
 LV Write Access        read/write
 LV Status              available
 # open                 1
 LV Size                745.23 GB
 Current LE             190780
 Segments               1
 Allocation             inherit
 Read ahead sectors     0
 Block device           254:0

Thanks, and merry Christmas!
Olmo.