Hello mailing list, I currently sensed that LVM2 is not load balancing reads of mirrored LV's form their corresponding PV. PV1 PV2 LV LV' IO=0 IO=90MB/s [~]# lvm version LVM version: 2.02.39 (2008-06-27) Library version: 1.02.27 (2008-06-25) Driver version: 4.14.0 Distribution is Fedora 10, updated. Is this normal behaviour, or did a make a big mistake in my configuration? FYI: [~]# pvs -o+lv_name,lv_size,lv_attr PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree LV LSize Attr /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 145,22G 4,97G [lvroot_mlog] 32,00M lwi-ao /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 145,22G 4,97G [lvhome_mlog] 32,00M lwi-ao /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 145,22G 4,97G lvdata 285,50G -wi-ao /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 145,22G 4,97G [lvswap_mlog] 32,00M lwi-ao /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 145,22G 4,97G 0 /dev/sda3 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 553,28G 0 [lvswap_mimage_1] 5,03G iwi-ao /dev/sda3 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 553,28G 0 [lvroot_mimage_1] 15,00G iwi-ao /dev/sda3 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 553,28G 0 [lvhome_mimage_1] 533,25G iwi-ao /dev/sdb1 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 698,62G 0 [lvswap_mimage_0] 5,03G iwi-ao /dev/sdb1 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 698,62G 0 [lvroot_mimage_0] 15,00G iwi-ao /dev/sdb1 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 698,62G 0 [lvhome_mimage_0] 533,25G iwi-ao /dev/sdb1 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 698,62G 0 lvdata 285,50G -wi-ao -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, / with kind regards, Sascha Thomas Spreitzer http://spreitzer.name/ _______________________________________________ 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/