On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Jon Carnes wrote:
Other more heavily used filesystems like /usr or /home are in LVM and I have
no complaints on them.
Are you using it on /var on a mailsystem?
This is a development workstation that I used for packaging RPM's. So while it is disk intensive, it does so in different ways than a mail server.
I haven't seen any benchmarks on LVM vs. non-LVM disk performance. All I can say is that the seat-of-the-pantsometer tells me that this system performs largely the same as it did before it was running LVM. But my partitions are laid out much more smartly as I can fine tune the partition sizes as needed.
Speaking of mail servers, wouldn't it be nice to be able to stop your mail daemons, create a filesystem snapshot, restart your daemons and then back up from the snapshot? Yes, you would have about 3 seconds of mail service downtime per day but your backups would be good. For some organizations that 3 seconds of downtime is unacceptable but from what I've seen of some of the big broadband ISP's they wouldn't notice such a small window of downtime.
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