Re: [Qemu-discuss] data consistency on LVM snapshots using writeback caching

[Daniel Neugebauer]

> I wonder how you handle RAID for your LV because in my experience LVM
> RAIDs are very slow in comparison to mdadm RAID. I have issues like you
> describe for guests running on LVM RAID (not using raw LV, though).

I'm using mdraid around LVM, so e.g. /dev/md1 (RAID1 with 2 disks) is
being used as a PV.

I never bothered to try LVM RAID1 as I am happy with mdraid and storing
metadata on a third disk appears to be mandatory but seemed like too
much overkill.

Alignment should be okay as well. All disks involved on those servers
have 4k sectors but I paid close attention while partitioning and
initializing mdraid and LVM, so I am pretty sure sectors are aligned.
Even if they wouldn't be it should not have such a serious impact,
should it? It's only a few kB every few seconds coming from guests and I
already have incredibly high latency so I doubt it could have anything
to do with sector alignment.

Daniel