[linux-lvm] LVM System

[lembark at wrkhors.com]

-- "Anthony W. Marino" <anthony at AWMObjects.com> on 03/04/02 16:39:10 -0500

> Any thoughts or articles that would be usefull in determining the quality 
> on the following combination would be greatly appreciated:
> 
> LVM 1.x
> 3Ware 7800 Raid Controller
> Maxtor 40GB harddrives
> XFS Journalling FS
> SuSE 2.4.18+ Linux

Striped LVM on RAID5 is a nice, flexable way to go.
If you set the individual raid stripes at an I/O page
(normally 4K on linux) and then stripe across the
PV's the I/O gets spread nicely across plenty of paths.
Using a stripe == I/O size avoids the "write penalty" in 
RAID5, the Raid Controller and drives do a nice job of
buffering and the whole thing should work nicely.


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