Striped LVM on Linux - Concept, Setup, Extension and XFS Alignment
SUSE, Friday, June 19th, 2026
A technical guide to implementing and extending striped LVM on Linux while maintaining XFS filesystem alignment.
This technical article explains how striped LVM distributes data across multiple physical disks to multiply I/O throughput, a key requirement for enterprise workloads like SAP HANA. It covers the full lifecycle: creating striped logical volumes with proper XFS formatting parameters, understanding how stripe geometry becomes permanent in the filesystem, and safely extending volumes either by resizing existing disks via pvresize or adding new disks via vgextend. The author stresses that uniform stripe geometry across all segments is essential for sustained performance.