When growing a GFS2 filesystem, is it better to grow the existing physical volume or to add a new physical volume?

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Issue

  • When growing a GFS2 filesystem, is it better to grow the existing physical volume or to add a new physical volume?
  • Should I present the new GFS2 storage as a new LUN or grow the existing LUN?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6, 7 (with the Resilient Storage Add-on)

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