[linux-lvm] LVM Overhead
Chris Cox
chris_cox at stercomm.com
Mon Sep 24 15:05:38 UTC 2007
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Hi,
> I am wanting to use LVM behind an iet iscsi target and I am wondering
> how much overhead if any does LVM add? Would the performance degrade
> any, currently I am exporting full unpartitioned discs and am happy with
> the performance. From what I am reading now, I would likely partition
> the physical discs and use that in LVM then export a volume.
Overhead is negligible. I haven't seen any impact at all.
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> I am new to LVM but see some advantages long term to using it!
Definitely.
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> Thanks!
> jlc
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Chris Cox
Sr. Unix Sys Admin
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