On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:57:07PM -0700, sachin wrote: > Hi > > when I executed the lvdisplay command i get the following output > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/vg/lv1 > VG Name vg > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > LV # 1 > # open 0 > LV Size 4 GB > Current LE 1024 > Allocated LE 1024 > Stripes 4 > Stripe size (KByte) 16 > Allocation next free > Read ahead sectors 1024 > Block device 58:0 > > Can any one tell me what that ALLOCATION next free means > and also what strict allocation means. 'Next free' allocates the next free physical extents it finds in the VG while extending any logical volume. There's no 'strict' allocation in LVM. Your other option is 'contiguous' which means allocation of subsequent areas of PEs. > > I also tried lvdisplay with -v option > > it gives me read and writes > What that exactly means > 1. No of read and write operation > 2 No of blocks transferd > 3. No of sectors read or written 1 > > One more thing this io statics is from which time > 1. bootup time > 2. lv creation time 3. VG activation time (vgchange -ay) > > Thanks > Sachin. > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
