From: Ray Morris <support@bettercgi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Data alignment
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:54:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269028464.22396.2@raydesk1.bettercgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA3C87C.7020608@cfl.rr.com> (from psusi@cfl.rr.com on Fri Mar 19 13:54:52 2010)
> Then I waste 512k on the MBR, and another 512k on the pv header.
> I'd like to avoid that if possible and it seems like --dataalignoffset
> should let me do that, but it doesn't accept negative numbers.
1 MB "wasted" on a 160,000 MB SDD = 99.999375% efficiency.
Inversely, that's 0.000625% "wasted", worth roughly 1/5 of
1 penny US, or $0.0002. Your time spent thinking about it - $25.
Also, 10,000 sysadmins on this list X 2 minutes = 3333 hours X
$100/hour = $333,333. I'd burn the 1MB and move on.
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On 03/19/2010 01:54:52 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 3/19/2010 2:36 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote:
> > Align the partition?
>
> Then I waste 512k on the MBR, and another 512k on the pv header. I'd
> like to avoid that if possible and it seems like --dataalignoffset
> should let me do that, but it doesn't accept negative numbers.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-19 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 18:13 [linux-lvm] Data alignment Phillip Susi
2010-03-19 18:36 ` Eugene Vilensky
2010-03-19 18:54 ` Phillip Susi
2010-03-19 19:54 ` Ray Morris [this message]
2010-03-19 21:20 ` Phillip Susi
2010-03-20 7:32 ` Luca Berra
2010-03-19 19:25 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-03-19 21:27 ` Phillip Susi
2010-03-19 22:21 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-03-19 23:11 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-03-25 12:54 ` [linux-lvm] Called while suspended Fredrik Skog
2010-03-20 23:02 ` [linux-lvm] Data alignment Stuart D. Gathman
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2013-02-12 14:58 Phillip Susi
2013-02-12 15:10 ` Mike Snitzer
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