On Monday 28 July 2003 12:17, Joe Thornber wrote: > > 1: suppose my hamster bites my power cord during a pvmove and only half > > of the data will have moved. How great a disaster does this result in? > > Does lvm move one extend and does it write to disk which LE has been > > mapped to which PE, or does it first write all the data and rewrite the > > metadata? > > First off I encourage you to use LVM2 rather than LVM1. An > interrupted pvmove can be resumed or aborted after a crash. Hm, I'll consider upgrading, since lvm2 seems to be largely compatible with older lvm installations. > > 2: does lvm ever get fragmented if one moves data around across different > > disks a lot? > > The extent size is normally so large (4M+) that fragmentation isn't > really a big problem with LVM. But we will be making a more general > remapping tool in the future that allows you to do this sort of thing. Ok. Cool :-) -- Frank Van Damme http://www.openstandaarden.be ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Je pense, donc je suis breveté." _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
