On Friday, 13 September 2002, at 12:46:27 -0500, Laurie E. Miller wrote: > It appears to use 4 129 gb harddrives, an extent size of 8 mb is > required. > > Does this mean that any small file will be saved using 8 mb of disk > space, or will small files be evenly distributed over one 8 mb extent? > As far as I know space consumed by a file is a filesystem thing, not a block-device thing. An extent seems to only affect waste of space when creating/resizing Logical Volumes, because a LV must be an integer number of PE (or a LV must be PE-alligned ;-) So on each LV you will waste up to a PE plus LVM metadata. It depends on the filesystem, namely on its block-size. Hope this helps. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (Linux 2.4.19-pre6aa1) _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
