Hey all,
I'm having an issue tuning the readahead value for my Logical Volumes via udev. In short, I'm trying to create a rule that sets the readahead attribute for each of my Logical Volumes at boot time or upon the creation of a new volume. udev seems like the perfect place to do this, but for some reason or another LVM seems to be overriding these settings.
Here's the udev rule I'm using, followed by an example:
```
# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/83-readahead.rules
# Set the readahead on non-spinning disks to 8kb (16 512b sectors)
ACTION="" KERNEL=="dm-*", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{bdi/read_ahead_kb}="8"
# lvcreate -L 100G data_fioa -n readahead_test
Logical volume "readahead_test" created
# blockdev --report
RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device
rw 256 512 4096 0 107374182400 /dev/dm-0
```
You'll notice above that the readahead is still 256 512-byte sectors. The same happens upon a reboot of the system. Despite this, I do see information in logs from udev that it is writing this value:
> udevd-work[4778]: ATTR '/sys/devices/virtual/block/dm-1/bdi/read_ahead_kb' writing '8' /etc/udev/rules.d/83-readahead.rules:3
(Note: this is an earlier log entry; I have since disabled debug logging, so ignore any inconsistencies here)
With all that said, I am quite certain that the udev rules are correct, because after running `udevadm trigger`, the readahead values are then set properly:
```
# udevadm trigger
# blockdev --report
RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device
rw 16 512 4096 0 107374182400 /dev/dm-0
```
I've tried tweaking a few of the udev specific values in lvm.conf, to no avail. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Here are my system details:
Distro: CentOS 6.4
LVM2 version: lvm2-2.02.98-9.el6_4.3.x86_64
udev version: udev-147-2.46.el6_4.2.x86_64
Thanks,
Dave
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