John R Pierce wrote: > >> Well the reason not to put /boot on the same spindles as md1 has >> already been mentioned a few times. Basically flexibility. >> What do you mean LVM doesn't really do striping? What does globbing >> mean? Does it mean there is no performance difference between >> striping LVM and just concatenating 2 raid1's? > > > conventional stripesets tend to use a stripe size around 32k or 128k > bytes. LVM tends to use a fairly large PE size, often 32MB. LVM > -is- striping these PE's, if you told it to do that, but its striping > with this very large chunk size, which means far fewer individual disk > operation will utilize both logical drives. If you have lots of > concurrent disk accesses, this may not matter. > _______________________________________________ The PE could be changed to a lower #. Would this negativelly affect LVM somehow? Russ