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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvcreate distributed extent option
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:02:38PM +0100, ZECHA,HOLGER (HP-Germany,ex1) w=
rote:
> > How about striping with the strip size equal to that of a logical ext=
ent?
>=20
> This allows us to do more I/O's per second

Only if you're only using a single or a few files at the time. If you're
using many files in parallel you will get more I/O's per second by
concatenating the devices instead if striping them. (that's what LVM
does by default)



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Ragnar Kj=F8rstad