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From: Emmanuel Gelati <emi2fast@gmail.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: norbuurgen@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] what is the IOPS behavior when partitions of single disk(raid5 backend) are used in an LVM?
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:31:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE7pJ3DZn9H5BXSuTo=uuFfVZQYxYymvzaAN21hCfhA+=AWO5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181011142550.GA15437@redhat.com>

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If you use sdb only for data, you don't have need to use partition on the
disk.

Il giorno gio 11 ott 2018 alle ore 16:26 David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
ha scritto:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 08:53:07AM +0545, Sherpa Sherpa wrote:
> > I have LVM(backed by hardware RAID5) with logical volume and a volume
> group
> > named "dbstore-lv" and "dbstore-vg" which have sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 created
> from
> > same sdb disk.
>
> > sdb                                8:16   0  19.7T  0 disk
> > ├─sdb1                             8:17   0   7.7T  0 part
> > │ └─dbstore-lv (dm-1)              252:1    0   9.4T  0 lvm  /var/db/st01
> > ├─sdb2                             8:18   0   1.7T  0 part
> > │ └─dbstore-lv (dm-1)              252:1    0   9.4T  0 lvm  /var/db/st01
> > └─sdb3                             8:19   0  10.3T  0 part
> >   └─archive--archivedbstore--lv (dm-0)     252:0    0  10.3T  0 lvm
>
> > I am assuming this is due to disk seek problem as the same disk
> partitions
> > are used for same LVM or may be its due to saturation of the disks
>
> You shouldn't add different partitions as different PVs.  If it's too late
> to fix, it might help to create new LV that uses only one of the
> partitions, e.g. lvcreate -n lv -L size vg /dev/sdb2, and then copy your
> current LV to the new one.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-11 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-11  3:08 [linux-lvm] what is the IOPS behavior when partitions of single disk(raid5 backend) are used in an LVM? Sherpa Sherpa
2018-10-11 14:25 ` David Teigland
2018-10-11 14:31   ` Emmanuel Gelati [this message]
2018-10-12 12:02     ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2018-10-12 15:46       ` Sherpa Sherpa
2018-10-15 14:48         ` Heinz Mauelshagen

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