On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone please explain what the purpose of stride is on ext3? I have > been "googling" this for hours and wasn't really able to understand the > underlying concepts. How does it fit with LVM, PV create's metablock size, > and hardware RAID controller? This thread should shed some light on the stride for you. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-January/073959.html I don't think it was ever addressed how LVM fits into this during that thread though. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell