[linux-lvm] Mirrored LVs

[brem belguebli]

2009/10/23  <malahal at us.ibm.com>:
> Morten Torstensen [morten at mortent.org] wrote:
>> Why cannot the mirrorlog be stored persistently in one or more LEs in
>> the LV? Why the need for a seperate PV for this?
>
> For better redundancy...
That is something I do not clearly see.
I am not going to enumarate em all, but mdadm stores the bitmap on
each mirror leg, HP-UX LVM store the MWC on each mirror leg .... what
makes them less redundant?

If we came to loose the LVM2 mirror third log device, what would
happen (you already answered me on this topic that the mirror would
stop).

I saw that there is some work being done to add a fourth log device to
address this SPOF.

I think the current implementation, by trying to be the MOST redundant
one, is getting too complex, or too expensive (each mirror device
requiring 3 or 4 devices even if the 1 or 2 log devices are a few
Megs) that one would, in the best case, use corelog instead, or
partition the drives to mirror with 1 small log partition and the
remaining space for data : both cases got off of the redundancy
targeted.

Worst case one would use mdadm as underlying RAID.
>
>> Since most servers I work with have two disks for the system, this force
>> me to use md for mirroring, adding unneeded complexity for a simple mirror.
>
> Use "--alloc anywhere" to place the log LV on one of them when you
> create your mirror.
>
It still requires/creates a log LV ?

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Brem