Nesting gvinum?

[Lukas Ertl]

Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:43:14AM -0500, Jonathan Dobbie wrote:
>> I was hoping to have something like md+LVM where I could change the size
>> of RAID 5 volumes.  Could I have a large gvinum raid-5 volume and then
>> make 3 gvinum volumes on top that could be resized?
> 
> Except for the nesting, this is precisely what gvinum does.  Why do you
> need nesting?  Resizing volumes is something gvinum is supposed to be able
> to do.

RAID5 plexes (as striped plexes) can't be resized without destroying all
the data, although it would be a nice feature, I agree. :-)

cheers,
le

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