-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Allen, Jack wrote: >> On Behalf Of Bryn M. Reeves >> Recent releases of LVM2 improve performance for large VGs as they >> perform caching of metadata read from disk under some circumstances. >> There were also a series of fixes to ensure that the tools behave >> correctly when they find PVs with no metadata. >> >> See earlier threads in the archives on this subject for more information >> & examples of creating VGs with reduced numbers of metadata areas. >> >> Regards, >> Bryn. > ============================================================ > You are saying it affects the performance of some of the LVM tools, but > what about File Systems or databases that use the Logical Volume > directly? Correct. It has no effect on I/O performance - at least not in typical real-world cases; you could probably construct a worst case scenario where the VG is severely fragmented across 100s and 100s of PVs so tthat I/O performance suffers but I have never in practice encountered this situation (and it could just as easily occur in a VG containing a smaller number of PVs with the right sequence of LV manipulations and allocation policy). On the other hand, poor tool performance with VGs containing 10s or 100s of PVs has been reported in real world situations on numerous occasions (particularly on s390/zVM systems using IBM DASD storage since these are limited to 2GiB per volume so tend to be used in large numbers). These problems tend not to be noticeable with modest numbers of PVs (~10 or so) although the impact can be measured. With hundreds of metadata containing PVs the problem can be very noticeable - especially with LVM2 versions that do not include Milan's metadata caching enhancements. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIoyFz6YSQoMYUY94RAu6DAJ0WvnIlFjAizDj2Zzyx0bqX1TNRSACbBZU5 778C4VXaUo2xHe3Wmr7ODFM= =K0Su -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
