[linux-lvm] I/O accounting by partition: "-cow" & "-real" map to base or snapshot or ???
Linda A. Walsh
lvm at tlinx.org
Thu Oct 3 19:31:41 UTC 2013
I'm trying to display I/O data from /proc/diskstats
for regular, non-thin partitions, by lv_name.
"-cow" and "-real" bit confusing. When I look at the
output of "dmsetup ls" different minor devs for:
name minor
Home-real 2
Home 3
Home-snapshot 5
Home-snapshot-cow 26
(snapshot=date+time snapshot was started)
I regularly see I/O on 'Home' & 'Home-real'.
write = "dd if=/dev/zero of=1G bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct"
A 1G write to Home shows 2GB I/O on 2 partitions:
Home: 1G read
Home-real: 1G read
Is this being double reported? (i.e.
I should ignore one?) Confusing is that they don't always
show the same amount of I/O.
A write to the same filename again showed 4GB I/O on 3 partitions:
Home: 1G read + 1G write
Home-real: 1G write
Home-snap-cow: 1G write
Is there some read is copying off the
first copy to the "cow" partition? (with a 1G duplication somewhere?).
If I "overwrite"
(dd if=/dev/zero of=1G bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct conv=nocreat)
I see the same numbers as on the initial file creation (to
both base and the "-real" partitions).
Could anyone clarify what's going on in the above scenarios?
(i.e. I would find each write being multiplied by 2 a bit
far fetched in terms of disk-BW; Multiplied by 4... even less
likely I'd think...? Thanks for any light-shed...;-)
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