OK, I will try that and check the implications of that, thanks!! But, do you know why having 10,000 extents is causing this overwhelming memory usage? -----Original Message----- From: Alasdair G Kergon [mailto:agk@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:10 PM To: Eli Malul Cc: device-mapper development Subject: Re: mirrored device with thousand of mappingtableentries On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:17:52PM +0200, Eli Malul wrote: > I expect to have thousands of non contiguous extents (so I created a > synthetic mapping table to test the device-mapper behavior). > > Any suggestions? > -----Original Message----- > From: Alasdair G Kergon [mailto:agk@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 2:12 PM > To: Eli Malul > Cc: device-mapper development > (And if, unlike that example, your extents are not > contiguous, > create two new devices that join them together, and mirror those. > That's > what LVM does.) That. dm0 = list 0 dm1 = list 1 dm2 = mirror of dm0 and dm1 Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
