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From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LV Fragmentation determination
Date: Wed Nov  6 07:00:02 2002	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021106135537.A1228@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211060108110.8692-100000@junior.lunanet.biz>; from dlt@lunanet.biz on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:23:52AM -0700

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:23:52AM -0700, Donald Thompson wrote:
> First off, can LV's become fragmented across a PV/VG? If yes then...

Yes, they can.

> 
> I'm looking for an easy way to determine how fragmented an LV might been
> inside the VG. Is there any command I can run that'll give me nice
> estimate on this?
> 
> Assuming theres no such command, can I determine this by looking at the
> PE's displayed from an 'lvdisplay -v' command? I'm guessing it'd be pretty
> easy to write a script that analyzes the PE numbers and looks for skips in
> the sequence to give myself an idea of the amount of fragmention for the
> LV. Or am I competely wrong thinking you can use PE's to make such a
> determination?
> 
> I do shrinks and enlarges for different LV's sometimes on an almost daily
> basis, and my VG's are getting to be very old. So I'm curious to see how
> fragmentated my LVs have become.

You can analyze the "lvdisplay -v" output on your LVs in question.
That shows you the mapping information and therefore, if your LVs are
fragemented.

> 
> TIA for any clues.
> 
> -Don
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-06  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-06  2:24 [linux-lvm] LV Fragmentation determination Donald Thompson
2002-11-06  3:20 ` Jon Bendtsen
2002-11-06  7:00 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2002-11-06  7:17   ` Anders Widman
2002-11-06  7:38     ` Joe Thornber
2002-11-07 11:05       ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen

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