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LVM Concepts: Complete Guide to Logical Volume Manager

Updated on December 22, 2022
👁 LVM Concepts: Complete Guide to Logical Volume Manager

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Former Senior Technical Writer at DigitalOcean, specializing in DevOps topics across multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, as well as Debian 10 and 11.

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What is the relationship between logical extent and physical extents,

  1. Logical extent size equal to physical extent size ?
  2. Physical extent equal to block(in the context of LBA) ?
  3. If physical extent equal to block, and if physical extent size is 1MB, When using stripe, what is the optimal stripe size, 1MB ?

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