Re: How to grow RAID1 mirror on top of LVM?

[Lars Täuber <taeuber@xxxxxxx>]

Hallo Neil,

Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> schrieb:
> On Thursday March 13, aia21@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a better way to do this?  I am hoping someone will tell me to  
> > use option blah to utility foo that will do this for me without having  
> > to break the mirror twice and resync each time.  (-;
> 
> Sorry, but no.  This mode of operation was never envisaged for md.
> I would always put the md/raid1 devices below the LVM.

could you write in some short words what in the design prohibits us to grow a raid1 on a grown lvm?
We wanted to do the same:


mutliple RAID1 (aoe targets)
on top of
multiple LVMs
on top of
gigantic RAID6


Thanks
Lars
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