[linux-lvm] HUGE LVM log file...

Benoit SERRA bs at infologic.fr
Wed Jul 18 08:48:55 UTC 2001


At 18/07/01, you wrote:
>We've not had much feedback on this, I guess that people don't really
>notice much of a difference, I certainly haven't.  The allocation
>policy for PE's is to start at the beginning of the disk (which tend
>to have faster data transfer rates) and work back.  Anybody done any
>benchmarking in this area ?
>

Are you sure ?

In AIX, the system create PPS (PE) from the middle of the disk for 
performance reasons.

I heard on this list or on Linux-raid list that it's the middle of the disk 
which is the faster area.






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