Re: [CentOS] How does LVM decide which Physical Volume to write to?

2009-09-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 19, 2009, at 2:15 AM, Oliver Ransom oli...@ransom.com.au 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:

Re: [CentOS] How does LVM decide which Physical Volume to write to?

2009-09-21 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:15, Oliver Ransom oli...@ransom.com.au wrote: 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? This does not exactly explain how it

Re: [CentOS] How does LVM decide which Physical Volume to write to?

2009-09-21 Thread fous velkej
hi some other informations about lvm structure are stored in /etc/lvm/backup/* /etc/lvm/archive/* enjoy :) fous ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] How does LVM decide which Physical Volume to write to?

2009-09-19 Thread Oliver Ransom
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

Re: [CentOS] How does LVM decide which Physical Volume to write to?

2009-09-19 Thread Fabian Arrotin
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

Re: [CentOS] How does LVM decide which Physical Volume to write to?

2009-09-19 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 19/09/2009, at 6:28 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: 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: