Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 30, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Richard Ryniker wrote: > It has to be technically possible, but I have not heard about any utility > to defragment a logical volume... to modify the mapping of logical > extents to physical extents (simultaneously, for all the logical volumes > in a volume group) in

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-30 Thread Richard Ryniker
True, a usage scenario can often be devised to manifest the worst aspects of any allocation scheme. There are many other factors that can have so much influence that I suspect the number of partitions and volume groups may have little to do with actual performance. Disk device caching and operati

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-29 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 12/29/2012 03:45 PM, Richard Ryniker wrote: >> How does having two PVs on the same spindle increase latency? > > Longer seeks - from one PV to the other - instead of two writes into the > same PV. > Or the opposite depending on where the data is placed. One PV/VG: Create a 200G guest, make a

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-29 Thread Richard Ryniker
>How does having two PVs on the same spindle increase latency? Longer seeks - from one PV to the other - instead of two writes into the same PV. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-29 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 12/28/2012 05:47 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 12/28/2012 12:31 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> If you mean you want a single partition consuming the whole disk, all of it >>> in the VG, but to specify LVs that don't use all of the space i

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 28, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/28/2012 12:31 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> If you mean you want a single partition consuming the whole disk, all of it >> in the VG, but to specify LVs that don't use all of the space in the VG, no >> you can't do that within anaconda. Y

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/28/2012 12:31 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Dec 26, 2012, at 7:11 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 12/26/2012 08:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> What I wanted to do was create a large physical volume and then create several logical vo

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 26, 2012, at 7:11 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/26/2012 08:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> What I wanted to do was create a large physical volume and then create >>> several logical volumes within and some un-allocated space. I want

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 27, 2012, at 3:07 AM, Daniel Krawchuk wrote: > > You cannot create the LV's using the installer. You have to do that manually > using the LVM tools. Not true for a long time. When you create mount points, set to device type LVM, they become LVs. In anaconda 18.37.8 (probably 7 also

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel Krawchuk
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 22:11 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/26/2012 08:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >> What I wanted to do was create a large physical volume and then create > >> several logical volumes within and some un-allocated space.

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/26/2012 08:51 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> What I wanted to do was create a large physical volume and then create >> several logical volumes within and some un-allocated space. I want to do >> this since I'm not certain as to the ultimate s

Re: F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > What I wanted to do was create a large physical volume and then create > several logical volumes within and some un-allocated space. I want to do > this since I'm not certain as to the ultimate size needs of the partitions as > time goes by.

F18 partitioning LVM Question....

2012-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
What I wanted to do was create a large physical volume and then create several logical volumes within and some un-allocated space. I want to do this since I'm not certain as to the ultimate size needs of the partitions as time goes by. So, if need be, I can add to a partition or shrink a parti