[CentOS] How does LVM decide which Physical Volume to write to?
Fabian Arrotin
fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net
Sat Sep 19 08:58:39 UTC 2009
Oliver Ransom wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> This isn't specifically a CentOS question, since it could apply for
> any distro but I hope someone can answer it anyway.
>
> I took the following steps but was puzzled by the outcome of the test
> at the end:
>
> 1. Create a RAID1 array called md3 with two 750GB drives
> 2. Create a RAID1 array called md9 with two 500GB drives
> 3. Initialise md3 then md9 as physical volumes (pvcreate)
> 4. Create a new volume group called "3ware" with md3 (helps me
> remember what controller the disks are on)
> 5. Use vgextend and add md9 to the 3ware volume group.
> 6. Add a logical volume filling the volume group then create a ext3
> filesystem on the entire volume.
>
> Now I started moving a lot of data onto the volume and iostat said all
> the data was being written to md9. Why that array? How does it decide
> which physical volume to write to?
>
> I could not find any documentation or information online about how
> exactly this works.
>
What ? no documentation covering LVM admin on/for CentOS ? hmm, is
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/
not reachable from your side ?
How have you configured you LV ? linear or stripped ?
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