On Thursday 20 January 2005 19:04, Nick Urbanik <nicku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, I used LVM for many years, but found that the performance of the > virtual disks was quite a lot lower than the physical ones (using > hdparm -t and other measures). That has probably changed by now; I > was using LVM 1. Everything has changed since LVM1. Please run the benchmarks that matter to you using LVM2 with a recent Fedora or RHEL kernel. If you find any significant performance loss then please raise it for discussion on fedora-devel-list or an LVM list. LVM should be giving you good performance. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page