From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8OF5nV5003152 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:05:49 -0400 Received: from shuttlerun.csg.stercomm.com (scidalsmtp02.csg.stercomm.com [204.214.3.25]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8OF5lid023709 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:05:47 -0400 Message-ID: <46F7D242.3030707@stercomm.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:05:38 -0500 From: Chris Cox MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Overhead References: <1C8CF1EA1A5B5940B81B0710B2A4C9381DF6018911@an-ex.ActiveNetwerx.int> In-Reply-To: <1C8CF1EA1A5B5940B81B0710B2A4C9381DF6018911@an-ex.ActiveNetwerx.int> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hi, > I am wanting to use LVM behind an iet iscsi target and I am wondering > how much overhead if any does LVM add? Would the performance degrade > any, currently I am exporting full unpartitioned discs and am happy with > the performance. From what I am reading now, I would likely partition > the physical discs and use that in LVM then export a volume. Overhead is negligible. I haven't seen any impact at all. > > > > I am new to LVM but see some advantages long term to using it! Definitely. > > > > Thanks! > jlc > -- Chris Cox Sr. Unix Sys Admin