According to your suggestion I need to map the non contiguous extents into linear devices and mirror them. But, what if I am required to preserve the original extent's offset? Since I need to mirror an existing device with user data already on it... -----Original Message----- From: Alasdair G Kergon [mailto:agk@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:29 PM To: Eli Malul Cc: device-mapper development Subject: Re: mirrored device with thousand of mappingtableentries On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:13:42PM +0200, Eli Malul wrote: > But, do you know why having 10,000 extents is causing this overwhelming > memory usage? Nobody considered having a huge number of tiny mirrors reasonable or necessary so no attempt has been made to optimise that situation. Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
