On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I have been trying to get my logical volume to be aligned to a 512 KB
> boundary on my SSD so it lines up with the flash erase block. I thought
> I could do this with pvcreate --dataalign 1024, but this caused the data
> to be aligned to a 1024 sector boundary within the partition, which
> itself starts on sector 63. I then thought the --dataalignoffsest
> switch would help, but specifying 63 there caused the data to be moved
> to sector 1087. I tried giving it -63, but was told that a negative
> number is not allowed. Why not? How can I get the data to start on
> sector 1024-63 of the partition so it ends up on pysical sector 1024 of
> the disk?
You can have "negative" offsets. Just subtract from the modulus. In your
case that would be 1024-63. I.e. --dataalignoffset 961
If the PV is not removeable, you can skip the partition table and use the
entire device for the PV - leaving 63 more sectors for metadata.
If the PV is removeable, remember you need vgchange -ay vgname after
attaching, and vgchange -an vgname before removing. (I would suggest
leaving the partition table if removeable so that other systems will
recognize the partition label.)
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