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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
To: "Majed B." <majedb@gmail.com>
Cc: Jon@ehardcastle.com, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
	Linux Raid Study <linuxraid.study@gmail.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LVM and Raid5
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:15:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916131536.GA3752@arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70ed7c3e0909160400k578741e7ue687d8fd983d0d12@mail.gmail.com>

"Majed B." <majedb@gmail.com> writes:

> I tested with both dd and hdparm, and in both cases, md0 proved to be
> much faster than the LV itself.

This is quite odd because usually an LVM2 logical volume is just a simple
linear device-mapper target onto the backing device. I could imagine a small
performance change but a large one really surprises me. Could there be
something going on here wrt sync vs non-sync IO?

Best wishes,

Chris.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-16  8:22 LVM and Raid5 Linux Raid Study
2009-09-16  9:42 ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-09-16 10:09 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-09-16 10:20   ` Majed B.
2009-09-16 10:33     ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-09-16 11:00       ` Majed B.
2009-09-16 13:15         ` Chris Webb [this message]
2009-09-21 17:34     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-09-17 12:37 ` Michal Soltys
2009-09-21 14:33   ` Mike Snitzer
2009-09-21 16:30     ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-09-21 17:26       ` Mike Snitzer
2009-09-21 17:38     ` Linux Raid Study
2009-09-21 19:14       ` Majed B.

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