Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-20 Thread Jim Green
On 20 March 2011 04:09, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 20 March 2011 02:24, Jim Green wrote: >> http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php > > That looks like an LVM1 article. > > Here's a readable one about LVM2: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2/ > > "With LVM2, there's no lim

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-20 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 20 March 2011 02:24, Jim Green wrote: > http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php That looks like an LVM1 article. Here's a readable one about LVM2: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2/ "With LVM2, there's no limit on the maximum numbers of extents per PV/LV." Jonathan -- J

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-19 Thread Jim Green
Thank you for the excellent explanation! http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php from this link I read "The maximum number of physical extents is approximately 65k so take your maximum volume size and divide it by 65k then round it to the next nice round number. " looks like I already have

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-19 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:02:24PM -0400, Jim Green wrote: > this is what I have from fdisk -l, I have lvm on /dev/md1, md1 is a > raid10 array with 4x2T drives. > Disk /dev/md1: 4000.5 GB, 4000525058048 bytes > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 976690688 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 byt

raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-19 Thread Jim Green
this is what I have from fdisk -l, I have lvm on /dev/md1, md1 is a raid10 array with 4x2T drives. Disk /dev/md1: 4000.5 GB, 4000525058048 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 976690688 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (mi