Fedora LVM Testing
Testing disk performance impact of using an LVM (Logical Volume Manager) under Fedora 15 with EXT4 file-system.


EXT4 LVM - Default: 

	Processor: Intel T2400 @ 1.83GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 2613EJU, Chipset: Intel Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS + ICH7-M, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 80GB Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00, Graphics: ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 (392/350MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1981

	OS: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock), Kernel: 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAE (i686), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.0.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.1, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1400x1050


Apache Benchmark 2.2.17
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
EXT4 LVM - Default . 3955.90 |=================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
EXT4 LVM - Default . 150 |=====================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
EXT4 LVM - Default . 19.89 |===================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
EXT4 LVM - Default . 30.35 |===================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
EXT4 LVM - Default . 30.73 |===================================================