Il 2020-09-02 20:38 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk ha scritto:
Hi all
I just wonder how it could be possible some day, some year, to make
lvm use tiering. I guess this has been debated numerous times before
and I found this lvmts project, but it hasn't been updated for eight
years or so.
Hi, having developed and supported file-level form of tiered storage in
response to a specific customer request, I have the feeling that tiered
storage (both file and block based) is not so useful as it seems. Let me
explain why I feel so...
The key difference between caching and tiering is that the former does
not increase total available space, while the latter provides as much
space as available in each storage tier. For example, 1 TB SSD + 10 TB
HDD can be combined for a 11 TB tiered volume.
Tiering is useful when the faster volume provides a significant portion
of the total aggregated sum - which is often not the case. In the
example above, the SSD only provides a 10% space increase over plain
caching. You can argue that one can simple enlarge the performane tier,
for example using a 4 TB SSD + 10 TB HDD, but you are now in the
ballpark of affording a full-SSD volume - ditching *both* tiering and
caching.
That said, LVM already provides the basic building block to provide
tiering as you can pvmove between block devices. The difficult thing is
how to determine which block to move, and managing them in an automated
way.
Regards.
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