LVM questions

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 7 23:57:52 UTC 2005


On April 7, 2005 07:19 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   Is extent assignment random-access?  To illustrate it better, let's
> assume I start with the following logical partitions...

I doubt that assignment is random.

>   A) 10 gigs
>   B) 20 gigs
>   C) 10 gigs
>
> ...can I later delete A and add those 10 gigs to C, even though they're
> physically separated by intervening logical B?

Yes.  Also any given volume group can consist of multiple disks so a logical 
volume could span multiple disks (with gaps if you like as well ;-)

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