On 12/01/2015 06:35 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 12/01/2015 06:43 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>> ... should note that you'll have to shrink at least one of your volumes, 
>>> though.  The encrypted PV that you create will be slightly smaller than it 
>>> was, before encryption.  As a result, there won't be enough extents to move 
>>> all of the volumes off and then back.
>> The PV is used in multiple of the segment size, so, depending on rounding 
>> errors you may
>> have some free blocks.
> 
> Sounds right.  "pvdisplay" will print information about unusable space in the 
> "PV Size" line.  As long as that's larger than the LUKS header (2MiB, I 
> believe) you should be able to do a live migration to an encrypted PV using a 
> second disk.
> 
> Interesting.

And one can do it on purpose:
- big segments (64MiB)
- partitions with a little overhead (100.01GiB, so there are 10MiB of extra 
room)
- PV, mdadm or luks headers will never be a problem


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