[Gllug] LVM defrag

[James Hawtin]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:28:28AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:07:47AM +0000, James wrote:
> > I would however question how necessary defraging really is, having a file
> > system comming from 2-3 sections of a disk will not cause to many problems,
> > having it fragmented over multiple disks will make (potentally faster). OF
> > course also increasing the chance of failer of any one drive.
> 
> You mean it increases the chance of the filesystem being affected by an
> arbitrary drive failure.  Or did you mean that running LVM on top of a
> drive makes it more likely to fail?

Yes The former, and your right people should have it as part of a raid,
however when 100 GB drives were expensive that was not an option for
everyone. 

James
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