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 Plain . 539 |================================================================== LVM ... 533 |================================================================= 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 Plain . 330 |================================================================= 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 Plain . 84467 |=============================================================== LVM ... 85833 |================================================================ 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 Plain . 494 |=============================================================== LVM ... 519 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 451 |================================================================== LVM ... 452 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 273 |================================================================= LVM ... 279 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 69767 |=============================================================== LVM ... 71400 |================================================================ 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 Plain . 535 |================================================================== LVM ... 535 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 439 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 451 |================================================================== LVM ... 451 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 537 |================================================================== LVM ... 536 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 402 |================================================================== LVM ... 394 |================================================================= 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 Plain . 103000 |=============================================================== LVM ... 100600 |============================================================== 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 Plain . 533 |================================================================== LVM ... 528 |================================================================= 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 Plain . 451 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 338 |================================================================== LVM ... 330 |================================================================ 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 Plain . 86567 |================================================================ LVM ... 84500 |============================================================== 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 Plain . 540 |================================================================== LVM ... 539 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 443 |================================================================== LVM ... 443 |================================================================== 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 Plain . 452 |================================================================== LVM ... 451 |==================================================================