From: Eugene Vilensky <evilensky@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Data alignment
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:36:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4f537b51003191136r5f0d96f1m3c0ed8315382009c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA3BEBE.2010204@cfl.rr.com>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to get my logical volume to be aligned to a 512 KB
> boundary on my SSD so it lines up with the flash erase block. �I thought
> I could do this with pvcreate --dataalign 1024, but this caused the data
> to be aligned to a 1024 sector boundary within the partition, which
> itself starts on sector 63. �I then thought the --dataalignoffsest
> switch would help, but specifying 63 there caused the data to be moved
> to sector 1087. �I tried giving it -63, but was told that a negative
> number is not allowed. �Why not? �How can I get the data to start on
> sector 1024-63 of the partition so it ends up on pysical sector 1024 of
> the disk?
Align the partition?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-19 18:37 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 [this message]
2010-03-19 18:54 ` Phillip Susi
2010-03-19 19:54 ` Ray Morris
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-12 14:58 Phillip Susi
2013-02-12 15:10 ` Mike Snitzer
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