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Some uses of LVM *could* increase I/O wait time. It's easy to paste new
extents onto existing volumes, and the new extent probably won't be
contiguous with the old one. So you *could* see longer average seek
delays due to additional arm travel distance between extents. It's
strongly dependent on access patterns.
However this effect is probably down in the noise for most systems. The
only way to know if it's a problem for you is to measure. I would expect
that, given contemporary amounts of caching on the drive, the controller,
and in the OS, you probably won't see it unless you are driving your
storage *really* hard. If you do, dump/recreate contiguously/restore will
make it go away.
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he
means the exact opposite.
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