Re: LVM performance

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Martin
Peter Grandi schrieb: Those are as such not very meaningful. What matters most is whether the starting physical address of each logical volume extent is stripe aligned (and whether the filesystem makes use of that) and then the stripe size of the parity RAID set, not the chunk sizes in themselves

LVM performance (was: Re: RAID5 to RAID6 reshape?)

2008-02-19 Thread Oliver Martin
Janek Kozicki schrieb: hold on. This might be related to raid chunk positioning with respect to LVM chunk positioning. If they interfere there indeed may be some performance drop. Best to make sure that those chunks are aligned together. Interesting. I'm seeing a 20% performance drop too, with

Re: Spontaneous rebuild

2007-12-02 Thread Oliver Martin
Neil Brown schrieb: > > This isn't a resync, it is a data check. "Dec 2" is the first Sunday > of the month. You probably have a crontab entries that does >echo check > /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action > > early on the first Sunday of the month. I know that Debian does this. > > It is good

Re: Spontaneous rebuild

2007-12-02 Thread Oliver Martin
Justin Piszcz schrieb: > > It rebuilds the array because 'something' is causing device > resets/timeouts on your USB device: > > Dec 1 20:04:49 quassel kernel: usb 4-5.2: reset high speed USB device > using ehci_hcd and address 4 > > Naturally, when it is reset, the device is disconnected and t

Spontaneous rebuild

2007-12-01 Thread Oliver Martin
[Please CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed] Hello! I've been experimenting with software RAID a bit lately, using two external 500GB drives. One is connected via USB, one via Firewire. It is set up as a RAID5 with LVM on top so that I can easily add more drives when I run out of space. About