Archive for May 18, 2009

LVM Snapshot Performance

I can across this that’s worth sharing regarding LVM snapshot performance pitfalls. The trick is chunk sizes, although ultimately it’s still copy-on-write. http://www.nikhef.nl/~dennisvd/lvmcrap.html I never use LVM snapshots long term anyway; just freeze fs, snapshot, unfreeze fs, do whatever, destroy snapshot. Another trick is to put the snapshot on a physically separate device from the […]