defragging logical volumes

hi,

how can I rearrange logical volumes so that they are contiguous? does
it matter if the root LV isn't contiguous?

Jason

I've thought of this too, and I bet it matters some, but not
very much. The extents in question are 4M in size. If you are concerned about it, you could try increasing the extent size to 32M and not lose much in the way of resize granularity.

The only time it matters is when a normally contiguous read
crosses a logical extent boundary. So, larger logical extents make this less likely. Also, LVM tends to allocate things contiguously anyway.

Still, the pvmove mechanism provides a way to defragment if
you're concerned about it. I don't think such a utility exists, but, given the existence of pvmove, I doubt it would be too hard to write. 'tsort' is your friend. :-)

Of course, pvmoving things while the filesystem is still running
is a little dangerous as LVM doesn't do any kind of journalling of metadata that I know of. If the power goes out during a move.. *shudder*

Have fun (if at all possible),

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