Introduction
When creating or changing a logical volume you can define the way the Logical Volume Manager decides on which physical partitions to allocate to the logical volume.
This affects the performance of the logical volume.
Intra-physical volume allocation policy
The intra-physical volume allocation policy indicates where on the physical volume partitions are allocated to the logical volume.
The choices are: center, middle, edge, inner edge, and inner middle.
Location of the data can impact performance.
To determine the area with the best performance, you need to check the documentation with your disks.
The center area generally was the area with the best performance on older disks.
But, that may not be true with newer disks.