On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Daksh Chauhan wrote:
> This is interesting, and I understand your explaination Ray... But,
> how can I figure out how much data is on each PVs??
If by "data" you mean "allocated to LVs", then the free PPs for each PV tells
you the answer.
But perhaps by "data" you mean "allocated to LVs *and* allocated to files
in the (arbitrary) filesystems on those LVs".
This would be difficult (and probably pointless).
1) Create a map for each LV of data blocks in use. Obtaining this map is
filesystem dependent, and very different for each filesystem type.
2) Use the LP->PV mapping for each LV to map in use filesystem blocks to PPs.
3) Count the PPs for each PV, and subtract from the total for each PV to get
the total in use by files in each respective filesystem.
The whole point of LVM is that LVM knows *nothing* about the filesystems
that you put on the LVs. You would not be asking the question unless:
a) You are coming from Sun ZFS, where the "LVM" *does* know about the
filesystems. (The drawback is that you can only ever use the ZFS
filesystem.)
b) You are unclear on the concept. Perhaps the explanation of how
it *could* be accomplished will illuminate. Note especially the point
in step 1 - "the map is filesystem dependent".
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