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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Advanced Format disks mixed with regular disks?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:17:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314171726.GA18249@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7E4689.9060300@cox.net>

On Mon, Mar 14 2011 at 12:47pm -0400,
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any concern with mixing 4KB-sector drives with 512-byte
> sector drives in the same LV?

Both LVM2 and Device Mapper have been updated to accommodate stacking
such a mix of drives.

See this for a bit more detail:
http://people.redhat.com/msnitzer/docs/io-limits.txt

Particularly, the "Stacking I/O Limits" section.

The concern raised for partial (4k) writes to the 512b drive was
discussed a bit more here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/22/295

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-14 16:47 [linux-lvm] Advanced Format disks mixed with regular disks? Ron Johnson
2011-03-14 17:17 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2011-03-14 17:32   ` Les Mikesell
2011-03-14 18:02     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-14 18:09       ` Ron Johnson
2011-03-14 19:13   ` Ron Johnson
2011-03-14 20:00     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-15  8:02       ` Karel Zak
2011-03-15 14:24         ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-03-15 17:36           ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-03-15  0:15     ` John Drescher
2011-03-16 20:45   ` Phillip Susi
2011-03-16 22:55     ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-16 23:11       ` Les Mikesell
2011-03-17  0:02         ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-17  0:18           ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-17  0:12       ` Phillip Susi
2011-03-17  0:39         ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-03-17 14:21           ` hansbkk
2011-03-17 23:47           ` Ron Johnson
2011-03-22 10:23             ` Karel Zak
2011-03-22 16:51               ` Les Mikesell

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