ext4-plain-vs-lvm Ext4 on Plain partition vs LVM Plain: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DRT-PS v1.00 (3.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 8 x 8192 MB DDR4-2133MHz HMA41GR7AFR4N-UH, Disk: 800GB INTEL SSDSC2BA80 + 256GB THNSN5256GPU7 TOSHIBA, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 LVM: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DRT-PS v1.00 (3.1 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 8 x 8192 MB DDR4-2133MHz HMA41GR7AFR4N-UH, Disk: 800GB INTEL SSDSC2BA80 + 256GB THNSN5256GPU7 TOSHIBA, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 537 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 335 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir IOPS > Higher Is Better LVM . 85700 |================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 517 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 451 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 272 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir IOPS > Higher Is Better LVM . 69267 |================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 536 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 438 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 450 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 535 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 397 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir IOPS > Higher Is Better LVM . 101333 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 530 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 1MB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 450 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 327 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir IOPS > Higher Is Better LVM . 83600 |================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 536 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 444 |==================================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: /bench-dir MB/s > Higher Is Better LVM . 450 |====================================================================