Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

[Tanstaafl]

On 2013-04-21 12:38 PM, Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> I should mention one specific advantage to using LVM over file-based
> images: I believe you will find that LVM performs better. This is due to
> avoiding the duplicated filesystem overhead that would occur in the
> file-based image approach. If the guest wants to fsync(), for example,
> both filesystems need to be involved (the guest's, and the host's). With
> LVM, you still have the host processing the LVM bits of that process,

???

This doesn't make sense to me.

Unless you're talking about using LVM on the HOST.

I'm not. I didn't specify this in this particular post, but I'm using 
vmWare ESXi, and installing a gentoo VM to run on it.

So, I'm asking about using the LVM2 installation manual from Gentoo and 
using LVM2 for just my gentoo VM...

So, in this case, is it still recommended/fully supported/safe?

Thanks