On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Aaron van Meerten wrote:

> Another note with regards to LVM: with our infrastructure we did
> some basic IOZone and bonnie++ tests and discovered that use of LVM
> causes up to a 10% performance hit for I/O operations in relation to
> using a native partition table.  This convenience did not seem to be
> worth the hit in performance we found.

  oh, i have no doubt whatever that using LVM over regular partitions
will cost you in terms of performance, it's a matter of whether you're
willing to trade that off for the convenience of having logical
volumes.  in your case, you weren't.

rday

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