On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:13, 조완근 wrote:
> Hello, I'm at the beginning to use LVM in my machine.
Congrats!
> Could you give any information on the implementation details of LVM and
> device mapper?? More specifically, I want to change the "mapping between PE
> and LE" for some purposes, however I'm just finished to read the manual of
> LVM-HowTO. This means that I'm totally a newbie in LVM and
> device-mapper. I just read some codes on data
> structures in LVM2/lib/metadata/metadata.h, but I can't get more
> information anymore on how they are mapped.
Well really it's down to basic concepts here. A physical volume is created
using some backing store (block device). The pv is then put into a volume
group where it is split into PEs (Physical Extents) that are then used to
create logical volumes. Logical volumes are split up into LE (Logical
Extents) which are the same size as the volume groups PE size. The idea is
that any LE can be on a PE from any pv in the volume group. (make sense?)
Now if you wish to discover which LEs map to which PEs (and in turn what
disks) you need to use lvdisplay -m vg/lv and this will give you each set of
extent ranges and what PE/PVs they map to. Here is an example:
ath600 sbin # lvdisplay -m main/var
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/main/var
VG Name main
LV UUID Qq9ywx-zPNR-mbhn-LcZ4-7ZEV-AJhF-42wDk1
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 2
LV Size 8.00 GB
Current LE 2048
Segments 3
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:2
--- Segments ---
Logical extent 0 to 511:
Type linear
Physical volume /dev/sda3
Physical extents 30976 to 31487
Logical extent 512 to 1279:
Type linear
Physical volume /dev/sdb
Physical extents 25725 to 26492
Logical extent 1280 to 2047:
Type linear
Physical volume /dev/sda3
Physical extents 45056 to 45823
So you can clearly see that both /dev/sda3 and sdb are spanned for this
logical volume. You can see which LEs map to which PEs.
> I'll use LVM for this purpose - I would like to make a
> program to change the mapping relationship between PE and LE in my own. In
> fact, the program's goal is to move an extent in a bad disk to a disk
> with good performance. The movement is done by the extent. In order to
> do it, I definitely, have to know how I can modify the mapping and maybe,
> the entire structure of LVM and device mapper.
Okay this is actually already done. You are looking for pvmove. Check its
man page. If you want to move all allocated extents from a slow drive to a
faster one it's quite easy, just do pvmove /dev/slowdisk /dev/fastdisk.
However if you just want to move extents from some LVs then you'll need the
much more advanced, pvmove /dev/slowdisk:beginextent-endextent /dev/fastdisk,
version of the command. Use the output of lvdisplay -m to guide you in the
extents.
> Could you give me some information on LVM & device-mapper details that
> help me??
Not sure you need these details, just more fundamental knowledge of the
concepts and of what the userland tools can do for you.
> I'm totally at the beginning, I'm well prepared to dig in the codes from
> now on, does anyone can help me to run faster??
No need to read the code unless you really really really get stuck and this
list can't help you. And if you've made it that far then someone on this
list will surely be of good service as a starting point.
If you really want to run faster you can move data that is touched often onto
faster disks with pvmove. Also making volumes contiguously helps and you can
use pvmove to make existing logical volumes contiguous as well. I'll leave
that as an excercise for the reader.
Hope That helps!
--
Zac Slade
krakrjak@volumehost.net
ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99
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