Monday, September 28, 2015

LVM Q & A Page - 2

           LVM   INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PAGE - 2

11..What is Mirroring in linux?

A mirror is a complete copy of a logical volume that's updated in real time. When you create the mirror logical volume, LVM synchronizes the original logical volume to the mirror copy

12..What  is physical extend?

The physical extent in LVM is the block size that physical volumes are using. The default physical extent is 4MB but can range from 8kB up to 16GB . Logical volumes are made up from logical extents having the same size as the physical extents.

13..What is logical extend?

Each physical volume is divided chunks of data, known as physical extents, these extents have the same size as the logical extents for the volume group.

14..What is the difference between  RAID and LVM?

LVM  doesn’t  provides redundancy  but  RAID provides   redundancy

15..Explain  volume group ?

The Volume Group is the highest level abstraction used within the LVM. It gathers together a collection of Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes into one administrative unit


16..What is the maximum size of  a single logical volume (LV)?

A..For 32-bit CPUs on 2.6 kernels, the maximum LV size is 16TB.
B..For 64-bit CPUs on 2.6 kernels, the maximum LV size is 8EB

17..How to see the logical  volume and its sizes?
#  lvs

18..How to remove the LVM?

#  umount  /dev/vg_name/lv_name
#  lvremove /dev/vg_name/lv_name


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