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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: mirrored device with thousand of mappingtableentries
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:20 +0000
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:13:42PM +0200, Eli Malul wrote:
> But, do you know why having 10,000 extents is causing this overwhelming
> memory usage?
 
Nobody considered having a huge number of tiny mirrors reasonable or necessary
so no attempt has been made to optimise that situation.

Alasdair