[linux-lvm] LV Fragmentation determination

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:23:52AM -0700, Donald Thompson wrote:
> First off, can LV's become fragmented across a PV/VG? If yes then...

Yes, they can.

> 
> I'm looking for an easy way to determine how fragmented an LV might been
> inside the VG. Is there any command I can run that'll give me nice
> estimate on this?
> 
> Assuming theres no such command, can I determine this by looking at the
> PE's displayed from an 'lvdisplay -v' command? I'm guessing it'd be pretty
> easy to write a script that analyzes the PE numbers and looks for skips in
> the sequence to give myself an idea of the amount of fragmention for the
> LV. Or am I competely wrong thinking you can use PE's to make such a
> determination?
> 
> I do shrinks and enlarges for different LV's sometimes on an almost daily
> basis, and my VG's are getting to be very old. So I'm curious to see how
> fragmentated my LVs have become.

You can analyze the "lvdisplay -v" output on your LVs in question.
That shows you the mapping information and therefore, if your LVs are
fragemented.

> 
> TIA for any clues.
> 
> -Don
> 
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