On Mon, Mar 14 2011 at 12:47pm -0400, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any concern with mixing 4KB-sector drives with 512-byte > sector drives in the same LV? Both LVM2 and Device Mapper have been updated to accommodate stacking such a mix of drives. See this for a bit more detail: http://people.redhat.com/msnitzer/docs/io-limits.txt Particularly, the "Stacking I/O Limits" section. The concern raised for partial (4k) writes to the 512b drive was discussed a bit more here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/22/295 _______________________________________________ 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/