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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

  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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