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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1322162 +++ SMQ is the default in 7.2 (and 6.8), I believe.
this is already fixed... although, the man page is overly verbose about the older MQ policy. I think we'd rather people simply used the default SMQ. This output is from 6.9. Cache policy The cache subsystem has additional per-LV parameters: the cache policy to use, and possibly tunable parameters for the cache policy. Three policies are currently available: "smq" is the default policy, "mq" is an older implementation, and "cleaner" is used to force the cache to write back (flush) all cached writes to the origin LV. The "mq" policy has a number of tunable parameters. The defaults are chosen to be suitable for the majority of systems, but in special cir- cumstances, changing the settings can improve performance. With the --cachepolicy and --cachesettings options, the cache policy and settings can be set when creating a cache LV, or changed on an existing cache LV (both options can be used together). The current cache policy and settings of a cache LV can be displayed with the cache_policy and cache_settings reporting options: lvs -o+cache_policy,cache_settings VG/CacheLV Example Change the cache policy and settings of an existing cache LV. # lvchange --cachepolicy mq --cachesettings \ 'migration_threshold=2048 random_threshold=4' vg/lv1 lvm.conf(5) allocation/cache_policy defines the default cache policy.