From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Moshe Yudkowsky Subject: Re: One Large md or Many Smaller md for Better Performance? Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:17:16 -0600 Message-ID: <47940EBC.1070405@pobox.com> References: <4793AE0E.609@pobox.com> <4793C8C0.3010301@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4793C8C0.3010301@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Bill Davidsen wrote: > One partitionable RAID-10, perhaps, then partition as needed. Read the > discussion here about performance of LVM and RAID. I personally don't do > LVM unless I know I will have to have great flexibility of configuration > and can give up performance to get it. Other report different results, > so make up your own mind. I've used Google to search (again) through the archives of the newsgroup, and "performance lvm" turns up relevant discussions back in 2004 or so, but nothing very recent. Am I missing some other location for discussions of this question, or perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places? (The Wiki didn't help either.) -- Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@pobox.com * www.pobox.com/~moshe "Rumor is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything." -- Terry Pratchet, _Feet of Clay_