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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] lvm2: mirroredlog support
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:35:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930163519.GV5351@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F5472B5D-59E5-4A38-948B-6055886E75A8@redhat.com>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:50:06AM -0500, Jon Brassow wrote:
> As long as we are on the topic of mirror logs (and this is unrelated to 
> your patch), I'd like to complain about the current behavior of log  
> allocation vs the log policy.  I don't think it should take  
> 'alloc_anywhere' for a log to be placed on the same disk as one of the  
> mirror legs... that should be 'alloc_normal'.

It was assumed that performance would be better this way, but I have
never seen any tests to prove or disprove that.  Maybe someone could run
some?

One way we could handle this is by creating a new policy between
NORMAL and ANYWHERE that does this, then renaming the old NORMAL
to something else and the new policy to NORMAL.

Alasdair

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23  3:03 [RFC] [PATCH] lvm2: mirroredlog support malahal
2009-09-23 20:29 ` Jonathan Brassow
2009-09-23 20:44   ` malahal
2009-09-24  5:22 ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-09-30 15:50 ` Jonathan Brassow
2009-09-30 16:35   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2009-09-30 19:48     ` Jonathan Brassow
2009-09-30 21:18       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2009-09-30 21:46         ` Alasdair G Kergon
2009-09-30 21:19       ` malahal
2009-10-01  0:13   ` malahal
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-30  0:10 malahal
2008-12-30  0:10 ` malahal
2009-01-19 22:56 ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-01-20  1:54   ` malahal
2009-01-20 22:12     ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-01-20 21:29 ` Takahiro Yasui
2009-01-20 22:14   ` malahal
2009-01-23 19:14 ` Jonathan Brassow

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