Well, the short answer is: NEVER. But given how often I see people ask about it, I'll try to expand my answer a bit…
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Converting Logical Volume so that it’s striped
In case you're not familiar – there is a thing called LVM – it's a layer between physical disks, and filesystems, and allow certain interesting things, like extending, migrating, snapshotting and others.
At one of systems I've been dealing with, we stumbled upon specific requirement – change LV into striped. It took me a while to figure it out, so I'm writing it down, so I'll never have to research it again.
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