Some of you may remember from a previous thread I've started into LVM.
So far so good. I have surfer = 250G drive, shark = 200G lv. Now shark
is already full of only mythtv stuff, and it's time for shark to start
eating surfer. Surfer has about 80G free space, but I _can't_ resize the
fs on surfer. So I was wondering about creating a big file(s) on surfer
and doing loopback to LVM. I've played with this and I can create PVs
just fine from the loops, and use them in VGs and LVs.

A few considerations I'd like help making:
Is this even a good idea?
Having the loopbacks available for LVM scanning at bootup?
Should I be careful about my big file block being sparsely allocated?

Von Fugal
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