[linux-lvm] Question on mixing technologies

[Georges Giralt]

Hello !

Here I'm again.

I've played a bit more with my setup.

I've changed two computers : a server having got a new mainboard with an 
M.2 plug, In it I installed a NVME SSD card.

On this machine, I created a PV onto this device and added this PV to 
the VG holding the system. I then did pvmove to place the lv containing 
/ and /usr to the SSD. Perfect !

The server is really highly responsive and, as the /var and /tmp are 
still on mechanical drives I hope the SSD will be long lived.

On my laptop, the SSD has been used for the / and /usr outside of LVM 
(the laptop had already a GPT disk and I decided not to use LVM at all).

I can't compare the behavior because of the huge difference between the 
two machines, but I'm really happy with both settings.

Thnks for your help.


Le 01/06/2017 à 02:31, Stuart Gathman a écrit :
> On 05/31/2017 02:53 AM, Georges Giralt wrote:
>> I finally had time to test the first solution, having the root FS on
>> the M.2 card and everything else (including /var and /tmp) on the
>> mechanical drives.
>>
>> The responsiveness of the machine is awesome and, for now, without any
>> glitch or problem. So I may retain this solution.
>>
>> The only remaining question is how to trim the device as it is not
>> "mounted". Is there a special pvcreate or LVM option to have this
>> device trimmed when it should be ?
> # fstrim /
>
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