[lug] LVM and modifying software RAID setup

Sat Nov 4 17:41:29 MST 2006

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:27:30AM +0000, D. Stimits wrote:
> 
>>Do the modern fedora and similar systems LVM allow creating a RAID-0 
>>stripe, and then later on adding more drives and turning it into a 
> 
> No, that's not handled by LVM anyway, it's handled by md.  While you can't
> directly grow a live RAID-0 into a RAID-10

Can you grow a live RAID-0 into a RAID-01?  It seems likely that you 
could build a second RAID-0, independent of the first, and then use that 
to mirror the first.  But I haven't tried it so I could be missing 
something.

Dave