[NTLUG:Discuss] lv striping

[Ed Coates]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

> I need to set up an lv that has a "stripe depth" of 1 meg.  I have looked on
> google and the various man pages that I am aware of to no avail.
> 
> The only thing close I have seen is lvcreate -I (stripesize), but that only
> appears to go up to 8kb.  I However, I may be mis-reading the man page.  It
> says the number must be 2^n (2 - 9).  That could mean that a maximum of 512k
> stripe size (hopefully the same as depth) could be achieved.  Either way,
> that doesn't get me to the magical 1 meg level.
> 
> Also, what is the preferred method of disassembling an lv?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Monty,

You're right, 512k is the max for a stripe, and I also looked at my HP-UX 
boxes at work, and it's the same thing.  Is there any reason in particular 
that you have to have a 1024k stripe?

As to your second question, you can use the lvremove command to remove a 
logical volume.

Ed