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LVM striping
An example of a striped logical volume is shown in Figure 9-13. The logical volume called
/dev/striped_lv uses the same capacity as /dev/inter-disk_lv (shown in Figure 9-12 on
page 386), but it is created differently.
Notice that /dev/striped_lv is also made up of eight 256 MB physical partitions, but each
partition is then subdivided into 64 chunks of 4 MB (only three of the 4 MB chunks are shown
per logical partition for space reasons).
Figure 9-13 Striped logical volume
As with LVM Distributed Allocation Policy, the first step is to initialize the PVs with the following ...