Re: LVM, Max PP's and Factoring

From: Williamson, Alan (alan.williamson@SIEMENS.COM)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 10:10:58 EDT


Yes, that's what I thought, but I was hoping I was missing something here
:-)

( The VG is a mixture of mirrored, and stripped and mirrored lv's so I'm
sure it won't be too straight forward :-) )

Thanks,

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM [mailto:Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM]
> Sent: 23 September 2003 14:42
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: LVM, Max PP's and Factoring
>
>
> I see no other way than backup fs, recreate vg with bigger pp-size,
> restore fs .
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Williamson, Alan [mailto:alan.williamson@SIEMENS.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:25 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: LVM, Max PP's and Factoring
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a slight problem with one of my volume groups. I need to add
> more disk space, but the disks I need to add are 36Gb SSA, but the
> volume group was created with 32Mb PP's. This means I can
> only have 1016
> PP's per volume. I need more than this to add the 36Gb drives.
>
> I know I could alter the factor to 2 thus giving me 2032 PP's as a max
> per volume which would be suffucient, but this would decrease my max
> PV's from 32 to 16. I already have 19 disks in the VG.
>
> Q.) What's the easiest way to get around this and add my 36Gb drives.
>
>
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Alan
>



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