[Gluster-users] How to find out data alignment for LVM thin volume brick

[Strahil Nikolov]

Yes, disk alignment is only needed as the LVM stack cannot get the details of the HW Raids.In your case , use the default 256k as per documentation.

Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov 

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On Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 9:21 PM, mabi <mabi at protonmail.ch> wrote:

Dear Strahil,
Thank you very much for pointing me to the RedHat documentation. I wasn't aware of it and it is much more detailed. I will have to read it carefully.
Now as I have a single disk (no RAID) based on that documentation I understand that I should use a data alignment value of 256kB.
Best regards,Mabi

 ------- Original Message -------
 On Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 at 6:56 AM, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> wrote:

 
 Have you checked this page: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.5/html/administration_guide/brick_configuration ?
The alignment depends on the HW raid stripe unit size.
Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov 
 
 
  On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 2:35, mabi<mabi at protonmail.ch> wrote:   Hello,

I am preparing a brick as LVM thin volume for a test slave node using this documentation:  

https://docs.gluster.org/en/main/Administrator-Guide/formatting-and-mounting-bricks/

but I am confused regarding the right "--dataalignment" option to be used for pvcreate. The documentation mentions the following under point 1:

"Create a physical volume(PV) by using the pvcreate command. For example:

pvcreate --dataalignment 128K /dev/sdb

Here, /dev/sdb is a storage device. Use the correct dataalignment option based on your device.

    Note: The device name and the alignment value will vary based on the device you are using."

As test disk for this brick I have an external USB 500GB SSD disk from Samsung PSSD T7 (https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/portable-ssd/t7/) but my question is where do I find the information on which alignment value I need to use for this specific disk?

Best regards,
Mabi 
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