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Am 21.04.2013 18:32, schrieb Randy Barlow: |
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> On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 12:15 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> But I've found lots of opinions that using LVM in a virtualized |
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>> environment can lead to data corruption, and if this is true, I'd |
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>> rather |
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>> not risk it... |
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>> So, LVM or not? |
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> This is surprising to me, because at my former employer we used LVM |
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> for |
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> all of our virtual machines in Xen. It performed quite well, and we |
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> never experienced any data loss due to that setup. LVM gives a lot of |
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> flexibility in managing virtual machines, so I'd highly recommend it. |
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> I believe LVM devices can be passed to KVM guests as well, though I |
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> have |
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> never personally tried that. |
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Correct, in almost every case where I set up a VM Host, I use LVM to |
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manage the "disks" that the guests will get. |
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