Accidentally Extended Striped LV with Linear PVs.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After extending striped LV with linear PV, the performance deviated.
  • How to remove a linear PV from striped LV

  • The command lvs gives the following output:

LV          VG        Attr       LSize    Pool Devices  KRahead Rahead #Str Stripe 
=====================================================================================
lv_data     vg_data  -wi-ao----   <5.48t      /dev/sda(0),/dev/sdb(0),/dev/sdc(0)   4.00m   auto    3 128.00k        <<< Stripes
lv_data     vg_data  -wi-ao----   <5.48t      /dev/sdd(0)                          4.00m   auto    1      0     <<< linear
lv_data     vg_data  -wi-ao----   <5.48t      /dev/sde(0)                          4.00m   auto    1      0     <<< linear
lv_data     vg_data  -wi-ao----   <5.48t      /dev/sdf(0)                          4.00m   auto    1      0     <<< linear

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and above.
  • LVM striping.

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