On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote: > LVM-2 doesn't scale very well. > > If you have I/O intensive workloads, I'd discourage using (multiple) > snapshots. > > A single write to the origin mean additional writes to each and every > snapshot of that origin. Right. This is one of the things zumastor.org snapshots do better; all snapshots for a volume share a common snapshot store, so performance doesn't fall as you add more snapshots. You might want to have a look at it... join the zumastor mailing list or drop in on our irc if you have questions. - Dan p.s. > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org wpkg.org looks very cool. I haven't used it much yet, but I hope to use it as a kind of automated real world test of wine sometime. _______________________________________________ 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/
