On 18/09/17 17:10, Brassow Jonathan wrote:
On Sep 15, 2017, at 6:59 AM, lejeczek <[email protected]> wrote:
On 15/09/17 03:20, Brassow Jonathan wrote:
There is definitely a difference here. You have 2 stripes with 5 devices in
each stripe. If you were writing sequentially, you’d be bouncing between the
first 2 devices until they are full, then the next 2, and so on.
When using the -i argument, you are creating 10 stripes. Writing sequentially
causes the writes to go from one device to the next until all are written and
then starts back at the first. This is a very different pattern.
I think the result of any benchmark on these two very different layouts would
be significantly different.
brassow
BTW, I swear at one point that if you did not provide the ‘-i’ it would use all
of the devices as a stripe, such that your two examples would result in the
same thing. I could be wrong though.
that's what I thought I remembered too.
I guess a big question, from user/admin perspective is: are those two stripes
LVM decides on(when no -i) is the best possible choice LVM makes after some
elaborative determination so the number of stripes(no -i) would, might vary
depending on raid type, phy devices number and maybe some other factors or, 2
stripes are simply hard-coded defaults?
If it is a change in behavior, I’m sure it came as the result of some changes
in the RAID handling code from recent updates and is not due to some
uber-intellegent agent that is trying to figure out the best fit.
brassow
but if confuses, current state of affairs is confusing. To
add to it:
~]# lvcreate --type raid5 -n raid5-0 -l 96%vg caddy-six
/dev/sd{a..f}
Using default stripesize 64.00 KiB.
Logical volume "raid5-0" created.
~]# lvs -a -o +stripes caddy-six
LV VG Attr LSize Pool
Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert #Str
raid5-0 caddy-six rwi-a-r---
1.75t 0.28 3
[raid5-0_rimage_0] caddy-six Iwi-aor---
894.25g 1
[raid5-0_rimage_0] caddy-six Iwi-aor---
894.25g 1
[raid5-0_rimage_1] caddy-six Iwi-aor---
894.25g 1
[raid5-0_rimage_1] caddy-six Iwi-aor---
894.25g 1
[raid5-0_rimage_2] caddy-six Iwi-aor---
894.25g 1
[raid5-0_rimage_2] caddy-six Iwi-aor---
894.25g 1
[raid5-0_rmeta_0] caddy-six ewi-aor---
4.00m 1
[raid5-0_rmeta_1] caddy-six ewi-aor---
4.00m 1
[raid5-0_rmeta_2] caddy-six ewi-aor---
4.00m 1
VG and LV upon creating was told: use 6 PVs.
How can we rely on what lvcreate does when left to decide
and/or use defaults?
Is above example with raid5 what LVM is suppose to do? Is it
even correct raid5 layout(six phy disks)?
regards.
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