On Monday 08 February 2016 14:05:24 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Well, yes, but since in my case the cache is bigger than the origin, > shouldn't eventually *everything* end-up in the cache? IIRC you lowered *_promote_adjustment, but still full copy may be prevented by sequential_threshold setting. And how many blocks you have in cache after boot? [1] Is number rising every boot? Can you verify cache settings? [2] [1]: lvs -o+cache_total_blocks,cache_used_blocks,cache_dirty_blocks, cache_read_hits,cache_read_misses,cache_write_hits,cache_write_misses,lv_health_status [2]: dmsetup status VG-LV lvs -o+cache_policy,cache_settings,chunksize VG/LV -- Mateusz Korniak "(...) mam brata - poważny, domator, liczykrupa, hipokryta, pobożniś, krótko mówiąc - podpora społeczeństwa." Nikos Kazantzakis - "Grek Zorba" _______________________________________________ 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/