[linux-lvm] HUGE LVM log file...
Gonyou, Austin
austin at coremetrics.com
Tue Jul 17 21:52:21 UTC 2001
Is there a how-to or cookbook type doc which tells how/why you should setup
your LE/PE's? Outter tracks/inner tracks, speed areas, etc?
Theory around this is a good thing with relation to LVM and using it. Any
ideas on that?
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin at coremetrics.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Weisselberg [mailto:weissel at netcologne.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 4:29 PM
> To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] HUGE LVM log file...
>
>
> Guennadi Liakhovetski (g.liakhovetski at ragingbull.com) wrote 23 lines:
>
> > > > My /var/log/lvm has grown up to 800MB+... and has
> filled up the disk...
>
> > > lvmsadc is probably filling it run by cron.
>
> > Thanks! But why / what for is it needed and why is it
> created by default
>
> man lvmsadc:
> lvmsadc collects the read/write statistics of the logical
> volume manager to the file "LogFilePath" or to stdout if
> no LogFilePath is given. You should create a cron entry
> for lvmsadc which runs it at regular intervals eg. 10 min
> utes.
>
> That statistical info can be later used to e.g. decide which
> LEs shoud have PEs at the faster 'begin' (outer edge) of the
> HD. An automatic LE mover program has not been written yet.
>
> -Wolfgang
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