From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, Steve Wray <steve.wray@the.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LILO configuration for LVM "boot" filesystem
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:26:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01060804262004.26916@lyta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NBBBKLKHMJHIJLHOGAOJGECDIPAA.steve.wray@the.net.nz>
On Thursday 07 June 2001 23:52, Steve Wray wrote:
> > From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com
> > [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On Behalf Of Steven Lembark
> >
> > > Tell me, what is wrong with having /tmp as a mount point
> > > for a LV?
> >
> > LV are generally slower than other types of storage. Since the
> > boot partition is generally cyl 0 it's on the fastest storage
> > available (short of tmpfs).
>
> Proportionally, how much slower is it? 50%? 25%? 12%?
> less than 1% slower?
> Does it really matter?
See my Bonnie++ web page, particularly the ZCAV part. The graph shows
the start of the disk being ~80% faster than the end. Try it out on your
own drives!
This isn't an LVM issue, it's a disk geometry layout issue.
--
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark
http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark
http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on
http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-08 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-04 8:07 [linux-lvm] LILO configuration for LVM "boot" filesystem Brian J. Murrell
2001-06-04 14:21 ` Ben Lutgens
2001-06-05 2:01 ` Brian J. Murrell
2001-06-05 11:56 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-05 15:48 ` Jack McKinney
2001-06-05 18:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-06-06 4:07 ` Brian J. Murrell
2001-06-07 15:30 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-07 15:43 ` Jack McKinney
2001-06-07 21:18 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-07 21:36 ` Steve Wray
2001-06-07 21:37 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-07 21:52 ` Steve Wray
2001-06-07 22:15 ` Jack McKinney
2001-06-07 22:24 ` Steve Wray
2001-06-07 22:27 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-07 22:23 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-08 2:28 ` Russell Coker
2001-06-08 2:26 ` Russell Coker [this message]
2001-06-07 22:29 ` Mark van Walraven
2001-06-07 22:38 ` Steve Wray
[not found] ` <20010607182636.H3232@jensbenecke.de>
2001-06-07 16:32 ` Jack McKinney
[not found] ` <20010607191649.R3232@jensbenecke.de>
2001-06-07 19:18 ` Jack McKinney
2001-06-07 16:39 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2001-06-07 21:20 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-08 2:27 ` Russell Coker
2001-06-07 21:08 ` Michael Tokarev
[not found] ` <20010608153036.G21909@jensbenecke.de>
2001-06-11 0:04 ` Mark van Walraven
2001-06-11 0:10 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-11 0:20 ` Michael Tokarev
2001-06-11 11:39 ` Russell Coker
2001-06-07 15:26 ` Steven Lembark
2001-06-05 18:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-06-04 17:56 ` Andreas Dilger
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