On 10/27/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Friday 27 October 2006 15:07, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:
> One of the downsides of file based images is I/O performance, right?
> Won't that have an adverse effect on the builders versus LVM?
Yes. I just talked w/ our Xen folks and they recommend using LVM, and doing
lvm snapshots, back up the snapshot to an image file, so that in an emergency
a guest could be brought up on another machine using the image file.
Whats the actual performance hit though? I want numbers :D
-Mike