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On Apr 22, 2013 2:05 AM, "Tanstaafl" <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2013-04-21 12:38 PM, Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I should mention one specific advantage to using LVM over file-based |
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>> images: I believe you will find that LVM performs better. This is due to |
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>> avoiding the duplicated filesystem overhead that would occur in the |
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>> file-based image approach. If the guest wants to fsync(), for example, |
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>> both filesystems need to be involved (the guest's, and the host's). With |
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>> LVM, you still have the host processing the LVM bits of that process, |
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> ??? |
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> This doesn't make sense to me. |
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> Unless you're talking about using LVM on the HOST. |
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> I'm not. I didn't specify this in this particular post, but I'm using |
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vmWare ESXi, and installing a gentoo VM to run on it. |
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> So, I'm asking about using the LVM2 installation manual from Gentoo and |
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using LVM2 for just my gentoo VM... |
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> So, in this case, is it still recommended/fully supported/safe? |
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> Thanks |
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Honestly, I don't see how LVM can interact with VMware's VMDK... unless one |
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use VMware's thin provisioning over a SAN Storage Thin Provisioning, in |
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which case all hell will break loose once the actual disk size is reached... |
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Stick with VMware Thin Provisioning XOR SAN Storage Thin Provisioning. |
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Never both. |
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One thing you have to think about, is whether to implement |
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LVM/partition-less, or LVM/partitions. |
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Rgds, |
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