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 (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jBB3cw122137 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:38:58 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBB3cl07013214 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:38:47 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so169431wra for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:38:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1cbd6f830512101938g4ec7d36dq4fd9a081658edf47@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:38:46 -0500 From: Mag Gam Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM onFly features In-Reply-To: <20051210230341.GJ3103@mjk.myfqdn.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1cbd6f830512101138t10ec4f77j217ee8830a60a97b@mail.gmail.com> <20051210200646.GF3103@mjk.myfqdn.de> <20051210202232.GG3103@mjk.myfqdn.de> <64AE95D76D81F71989D42E79@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <20051210223139.GI3103@mjk.myfqdn.de> <208D3DC6840704A034151D63@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <20051210230341.GJ3103@mjk.myfqdn.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 , Marc-Jano Knopp thanks everyone for their kind replies. So, will LVM and FS (ext2/3 in particular )ever be considered as 1? This would be nice for ease of devt. On 12/10/05, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 at 15:51 (-0700), Michael Loftis wrote: > > --On December 10, 2005 3:44:00 PM -0700 Michael Loftis > > wrote: > > >--On December 10, 2005 11:31:40 PM +0100 Marc-Jano Knopp wrote: > [...] > > >Any tail can be packed if it doesn't match the block size. In our case > > >the corruption evidenced itself as files with the first part being ok, > > >and the last part being all NULLs (0x0) up to the 'normal' file size. > > > > I really should say *mostly* because yes, files that were entirely shorter > > than the blocksize were essentially gone (full of NULLs). > > I knew it. :-) > > > > Our mail server makes the best use of reiserfs because of the huge number > > of files and the amount of files that end up packed. > > Same effect with news spool here (until ReiserFS lost files and I > returned remorsefully to ext3 :-). > > > Best regards > > Marc-Jano > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >