PSA PSA PSA: if you use LVM with USB drives you will get absolutely *abysmal* performance by default (especially on HDDs). You must use `pvcreate --dataalignment 2048s` to fix it. Fix requires re-creating PV and copying all data.
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We're talking 20x performance hit kind of atrocious. 10 minutes for an rsync vs 30 seconds. Seriously. This is fucking bad.
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It seems this may only affect some enclosures (many/most UAS ones?). Check with `pvs -o +pe_start --units s`. If you get an odd or non-multiple-of-8 "1st PE" column then you're affected.
