[NTLUG:Discuss] lv striping

[Chris Cox]

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?

Do you want the low level details?  What are you wanting to do
with an existing lv?

> 
> Any ideas?

Setup an ordinary RAID0 md device and then pv->vg->lv.
You can have stripes as large as 4M with md.