Hi 'moxers,
I have a pair of HP ML350 G6 servers with LSI MegaRAID 9266-4i+CacheVault driving Supermicro CSE836E16 enclosures via SAS bracket, filled with WD RE 3TB SATA drives. On these are configured a RAID10 array with one big virtual/logical drive with write caching and read-ahead enabled.
HDDs have 512B block size and VD strip size is 256KB. I have created a unique partition on the VD devices to use as a LVM PV. Then created three LVM LVs (in turn used as DRBD backing devices).
When I look at my setup using the blockdev command it shows a 4KB block size all around, except for the partition:
Putting aside that I'm hardly understanding why this is the case... does this may have a negative impact on storage performance ?
Thanks in advance
Bests
I have a pair of HP ML350 G6 servers with LSI MegaRAID 9266-4i+CacheVault driving Supermicro CSE836E16 enclosures via SAS bracket, filled with WD RE 3TB SATA drives. On these are configured a RAID10 array with one big virtual/logical drive with write caching and read-ahead enabled.
HDDs have 512B block size and VD strip size is 256KB. I have created a unique partition on the VD devices to use as a LVM PV. Then created three LVM LVs (in turn used as DRBD backing devices).
When I look at my setup using the blockdev command it shows a 4KB block size all around, except for the partition:
Code:
# blockdev --report /dev/sdb* /dev/dm-{3,4,5}
RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device
rw 256 512 4096 0 6000069312512 /dev/sdb
rw 256 512 512 2048 6000068247040 /dev/sdb1
rw 256 512 4096 0 1000194703360 /dev/dm-3
rw 256 512 4096 0 1000194703360 /dev/dm-4
rw 256 512 4096 0 21474836480 /dev/dm-5
Putting aside that I'm hardly understanding why this is the case... does this may have a negative impact on storage performance ?
Thanks in advance
Bests